Nice test, but...

[Khan the Warlord]

I dearly hope that EN World doesn't switch over -- the extreme slowness and the CONSTANT error messages drove me nuts. (I stopped testing the forums when I couldn't even create a post because of the errors.)

 

[Khan the Warlord]

OK, that was really strange... the above post was meant as a reply in another thread, but instead came up as an entirely new thread.

?

 

[Crothian]

I thought the slowness and the errors were caused by the unusually high amount of traffic? I think that it was higher today then any peak period we have, at least that's what it sounded like the intention was.

As for the new thread, yopu might have accidently hit the wrong button. It happens as they are right next to each other.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Keep in mind, Adlon's server were built up for his normal level of activity. We just subjected it to a "denial of service" type of situation.

He's going to be upgrading, and I think Morrus said that he doesn't need some fancy solution (given the revealed stats on Adlon's server).

 

[Adlon]

HA, you are correct.

This wasnt just a look at a forum package, or a new server, but, a look at an overall different environmet for the forums here.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I started to get errors on Mortality.net yesterday, but 9 times out of 10 a reload cleared up the error. Everything was very slow, but that was mostly likely due to the insanly high amount of people doing things. Which was the point.

Now my next thought does this prove that ENWorld should be hosted on the same server as Mortality.net or hosted on another machine at Mortality.net? Personally I go for the second option. That way no matter how bad the actual traffic on ENWorld gets it shouldn't directly affect Mortality.net other than the bandwith.

Just a random thought from a random someone...

 

[Henry]

I hope Adlon doesn't mind this, but do you all realize the system his Mortality forums are running on?

In a nutshell: Celeron Processor, 128MB Memory, Fujitsu slow-as-crud IDE hard drive, a Linux OS, and a 10MBit Network card. Morrus' system that runs these forums is a MUCH bulkier.

With that in mind, it is phenomenal that we had over 300 users hitting that one forum, and IT DIDN'T GO DOWN. It had glitches, and slowness, but it didn't crash (someone correct me here, but I believe this is correct.)

Yesterday's performance put the ENWorld server (and possibly Vbulletin Board software) to shame. No offense, Morrus.

 

[A2Z]

Okay, here's a question. Keep in mind I know next to nothing about servers. How is it at all possible that Morrus's faster more powerful server is outperformed by mortality.net's server? It doesn't make much sense to me that the EN world server outclasses the Mortality server in almost every way and still has all these problems. Can some explain it to me? Slowly?

 

[drothgery]

The Windows versions of PHP and MySQL suck. vBulletin is a PHP/MySQL based system. Also, I don't think Mortality.Net's server is running any other high-demand applications.

 

[pensiv]

drothgery sums it up pretty well. PHP & MySQL running on Windows 2000 (which I believe is the OS the ENBoards are on) is much much less efficient than to run it on a UNIX/Linux/BSD machine.

It seems that Windows doesn't handle the resources as well, mainly because one has to run so many other things along side the webserver and database.

Linux is much more scalable.