Use http://forum.avsim.net for the time being.

 

Same same Tom, this time 13 seconds.  Is this not what others are finding, i.e. load times upwards of 11 seconds?  If this is the case, then once again, what is it?  Need new hardware/architecture?  If it's not the case maybe I have some route delays in getting to Avsim?

WB AVSIM - I missed my morning chuckles for a while.

 

Glad you got it sorted Tom.

 

Vic

Tom,

 

Thanks for your hard work.  Backups really protect the future.  I'm going to donate to your endeavor.

 

Jim Driskell

 

"There are only two kinds of computer users, those who have lost data; and those who are about to!" 

Tom,

 

Thanks for your hard work.  Backups really protect the future.  I'm going to donate to your endeavor.

 

Jim Driskell

 

"There are only two kinds of computer users, those who have lost data; and those who are about to!" 

Glad to see you back.

 

You had me a bit worried this time. What a relief!

 

Kind regards,

You read that correctly. They refused a UPS delivery on Monday of two disks when they had previously accepted a UPS shipment to us the previous Friday.  On Saturday, despite having a visit ticket open, they didn't have me in their security system. They had the tech who was accompanying me, but not mine. Had the tech not been on some kind of list of theirs, I would not have been allowed in at all. Once we were in, things were great, but getting in was iffy there for a while.

 

Oh don't get me started on their security. I am on the list for the company I was doing work for, permanently. And they still continue give me a hard time to get in because they weren't told I was going to be there on a specific day. Even though I am issued a hand scan and used my OWN PIN # to gain access to the building. Never cease to amaze me. It's their COLO in Secaucus, NJ. CHI never gave me an issue.  Always made it a point to "grease" the loading dock guys and make friends with them. 

Thanks and great work getting back online. I really missed AVSIM while it was down.

So pleased your back !!!!

 

The failure of disks in a raid system reminds me of when I was an IT account Mgr for a Computer company supporting a Marketing firm. On the eve of a weekend, their raid system (raid 5 from memory), failed totally. I was completely frustrated and confused by this experience as this is not supposed to happen. Under our support contract we were obliged to replace all drives, restore the data and reconfigure the system.. this (again from memory) took a whole weekend and then some.  It turns out the problem was not with the drives per se' - but the location the Server had recently been moved to. It had been placed in a spacious closet work area, large enough to store other equipment and boxes and seemingly ideal for the location. The problem was not originally forseen by me as I was not part of the relocation decision. The new location had no aircon duct - so no cool air flowed thru the closet. Mix that with continuously running Server and hot summer days and nights - and it was only time before the whole system failed.... A salutary lesson in cooling and air flow

 

 

Go to the MS Azure site and price out a comparable Linux based system. When I looked, their Linux based solution was over $4,000 a month before you priced in bandwidth and database size.

 

I agree on avoiding Azure due to costs.  We evaluated costs and it was 3X less expensive to go to a co-location and contract out the IT work.  We're now 7 years running without a single unplanned outage (HP Proliant servers) ... we've had 3 HD failures over the 7 years but not a single interruption to our customers and clients.  We've had a few maintenance windows that went longer than planned (maybe extra hour) but overall the co-location and contract IT person has worked well for us and less costly than Azure.  Heck I even get emails whenever anything unusual happens at the co-location and/or with any of our servers.

 

Some of our servers are VM'd, some are not ... the ones needing absolute maximum performance are NOT under VM.  Makes it a little more difficult for our contract IT guy, but that's his problem  We run MS server and MS SQL server and IIS on our MS web servers.

 

We do have a planned "maintenance" window when we bring the servers down ... every Wednesday night to Thursday early morning (we picked Wednesday because it's the day after Microsoft releases windows updates).  Plus it's always a good idea to flush the server memory at a regular intervals.

 

Cheers, Rob.

I'm glad it seems the backups have managed to keep most of the active threads from prior to the hardware failure.

 

A certain other forum that I like to visit had a crash which time-warped all the forums back a good 6 months, removing heaps of posts!

 

Fortunately that has not happened here.

 

Thanks to the Avsim staff for their good work in getting everything back and running.

 

 

A certain other forum that I like to visit had a crash which time-warped all the forums back a good 6 months, removing heaps of posts!

 

We do a backup up nightly on both the library and forum systems. The system crashed last week on the morning of the 6th and the backup for the 5th was corrupted. We were able to restore from the backup on the 4th. We save three nights of backups and then replace the oldest with the next backup. We are restarting the backup system tonight, now that we have a stable system.

Thanks for the hard work Tom, we really do appreciate it. You deserve a holiday  :lol:

Tom, this of course has nothing to do w/ you personally, but even now the AVSIM site, and I just tested this against 5 other sites I visit regularly, takes 11-18+ seconds to load.  Each of the other sites takes 1-2 seconds to load.   So I guess Avsim just doesn't have the resources to have a bigger/faster server system, is this the real issue?  I suggested this before, but it seems there are ample users who very much enjoy Avsim.  Why not create a new funding drive, put the thermometer graphic displaying how far we are from goal of whatever, $20,000?, towards a higher end setup w/ some headroom.   Or, is the current system still not fully optimized maybe?  Maybe it's too early to say 11-18+ seconds will be the new norm I don't know, but it is at this very moment.

 

I just have to ask... how much faster does the site need to be? Instantaneous? Faster?

 

Folks... be grateful AVSIM is here, and back up!

 

Thanks for all of your efforts, Tom!

Thanks for all the hard work put by you and all the team Tom. It's when Avsim is off line that we realize fully what great resource it is...

Tom, this of course has nothing to do w/ you personally, but even now the AVSIM site, and I just tested this against 5 other sites I visit regularly, takes 11-18+ seconds to load.  Each of the other sites takes 1-2 seconds to load.   So I guess Avsim just doesn't have the resources to have a bigger/faster server system, is this the real issue?  I suggested this before, but it seems there are ample users who very much enjoy Avsim.  Why not create a new funding drive, put the thermometer graphic displaying how far we are from goal of whatever, $20,000?, towards a higher end setup w/ some headroom.   Or, is the current system still not fully optimized maybe?  Maybe it's too early to say 11-18+ seconds will be the new norm I don't know, but it is at this very moment.

 

Strange  that it takes you this long  just did a test on my end on the time it  takes

 

to open the main page of pmdg   took me 4 seconds

to open the support forum page  took  9 seconds

to click view new threads  took  4 seconds

to actually open up one of the posts   took 6 seconds

 

so comparing  to  it was before I say its a lot  faster  than it was

Thanks for all the hard work anyone involved and great to see Avsim back online again.