[ADMIN] Future hosting of ILX (Part 8080)

^^ yeah, definitely

would our existing host folks be willing to allow us to spin up another sandbox using their virtual solution so we can compare performance?

ah, got it -- those were the same questions and reservations I had from a layman's perspective -- just wasn't sure if I was asking the right questions or the programming equivalent of "can we turn this block of solid granite inside out?"

xp to stet

is sb extra

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 5 December 2011 21:19 (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

this, this should be like carbon tax, we should get a credit & have to buy more

good work stet!, let us know when you need $$$. when your head explodes from the continuous effort dedicated to server maintenance &c we will chip in for replacement parts for that, also

That's probably not a bad idea to ask about. I would guess they'd want to put the existing server out of its misery before they do that though, and I want to keep it zombieing on until I have a live running copy of proper ILX on another server.

(I have a copy running on my Mac, and the DB all checks out, but it's not quite the same)

xp thanks everybody btw <3 u all

I am in favor of a sb tax - we would never need a funding drive

frogbs would keep ilx running for 100 years

stet, there is one way I might be able to help depending on (a) how you go about doing what you intend to go about doing and (b) how busy I am when you get to that point. Bung me an email if you so desire.

Yes, adding to the thank-yous to stet for service above and beyond!

I want to volunteer to help but this is about to become silly crazy busy season for me and I don't want to be the flake who backs out

can't believe you're already flaking dan. sorry everyone - it seems like the orphans won't get into their new home in time for christmas after all.

so unthoughtful, jeez

awesome, adding my thanks here, and hopefully some $ at some point.

hey stet, thanks for all yr work!

fwiw i support using amazon too, best to use the futuristic hosting styles since we r a cutting edge community after all

can't believe dan is being such a huge jerk about this

hey stet, thanks for all yr work!

― your voice of treason, Monday, December 5, 2011 5:23 PM (15 minutes ago)

echoing frogbs here, thanks stet

dan needs to take some time off and think abt his priorities

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http://i.imgur.com/xsUWy.gif

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Thank you, stet! I have no skills to contribute but would love the opportunity to throw money at the problem.

btw in case I sounded too much like a huge wanker I was offering to develop the sort of supporting documents that would be megaboring for an ilx thread.

ditch the db, keep the sb

GOOGLE ADS HAVE WE TREID GOGGLE ADS

Amazon affiliate setup where every word on ILX is a link to a product.

loll yes

i know this comes up a lot but ads for unregistered posters and posters i dont like would get help us pay for a more expensive server if we needed it

sb
xp

Given that the annual fund drive is always oversubscribed, do we really need to look into novel solutions?

Stet, you are awesome.

catching up now but thx stet you are a prince

Charge people $5 every time they change their display name.

Readmission fee after a ban

£51 fine for self-excelsioring

50¢ per otm charge

graduated lol tax

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Antichrist1.jpg

Tithes to be paid by all posters to The Church

that medieval church puggle ain't looking too happy

he can't afford to go on ye olde ILM

lol tax revolts of 2012

Am I the only person who thinks "sb" should be left behind?

^no

thanks 1,000,000 stet for all yr hard work

I'd like to poll that question, I'll admit. But I have 'mixed feeligns'.

In theory, if someone's just posting offensive crap or spam, 50 good and faithful ILXors should be able to point them out and the perp gets xored out.

At the moment, it's more a 'custard pie for not liking Animal Collective in the right way'.

Maybe a 'ban' should last all of an hour, in the spirit of "we love you but maybe you should go and chill out for a bit"

And so on. Don't mind me.

If someone's just posting offensive crap or spam, they'll get banned by the mods before even reaching 51.

I know, and there's the 'borderline' stuff, and there's the 'offensive to relatively few people', etc.

Do most SBs happen clumped together after someone has said something very not cool, or are they usually spread out because most people are low-level horrible rather than balls-out nasty? Because these two scenarios maybe require something different? Maybe?

it seems 'low-level'.

I've never sb'd anyone, but then again nobody's really been b-o-n to me.

I can think of a couple of scenarios where I could have been sb'd to heck (OK, one scenario), but because it didn't exist I was able to explain my side, and people were able to either agree/forgive/cope/whatever.

Is that so wrong?

I've never sb'd anyone

Same here. I hate the whole idea of it.

I think I've only ever done it to people threatening other people with an SB in a kind of twisted Karma way.

Dumb question, but how do I set zing back to ilx (not sandbox)?

Just change the instance setting to "ILX"

ilxor.com is still redirecting to the sandbox btw. direct link http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/index.jsp

Yes -- want to keep it that way. I want to add load back slowly so I can be sure it's working. Right now it seems OK, and has been up longer than any previous attempt, but it's a quiet time generally.

ok cool.

got a tomcat error (which i didn't save sorry) when i logged in, but i manually visited /ILX after that and i was logged in ok.

I never reset zing to sandbox for that very reason

Also had trouble over there posting from zing for some unknown reason

It Is A Mystery

OK, problem was I had logged myself off fooling around with the settings.

THANK YOU!

are we back now?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/

are we back now?

YES

so old skool ilx is kinda slow right now?

seems fine to me

Slow for me too -- 3-4 seconds for SNA page load. But it's better than it was a couple of hours ago.

As soon as I say that, now it's loading instantly.

yah its been intermittently slow for me

slow for me,as has sandbox

I no longer even have a working login for "real" ILX - can someone who's managed to log in pls be a dear and tell me if it's still got SB before I bother going to the trouble of reregistering? I've enjoyed it here but I'm not going back to that stress.

Yeah, the new ILX does seem to be quite slow. After I clicked "login", it took half a minute before it actually logged in.

FT, regular ILX hasn't changed at all, and so, yes, does still have SB.

OK, thanks for letting me know.

yeah, prohibitively slow in both spaces now.

fundraiser

fundraiser.