Dean wrote:
Cant seem to get onto FCF so i tried BXclub and no joy there either, hopefully just a small glitch.........................
It was Dean
My girls reported the internet down at around that time as it was interrupting their Facebooks and MSN messenger
It went up and down a few times last evening and finally I had to power off the router to restore reliable service. It held in OK all through the night. Not sure of the cause but the Netgear router does occasionally need a full power-off to make it happy. Not sure either if one of my girls wes doing something to upset it either!!!
Plesk is very clunky Ciarán and not at all loved
It's suposed to make thing easier for unskilled people to run a web server but for us, it just gets in the way
It reminds me of the old MS Small Business Server interface of years back somewhat.
I've opened the MySQL port on my router and just raw SQL Queries are passed between the database server and the webserver. It works pretty well on phpBB2 although there is a speed penalty. It was origionally just a temporary arrangement until the root (no pun here) cause of a MySQL problem on the web server was resolved. Basically, the root password has been lost and Webfusion cannot help with this. Also, MySQL is used by Plesk and it presents a customised interface to MySQL. It was how I broke the webserver. I tried to uninstall MySQL and reinstall it via RDP and discovered that if you don't know the root password you cannot uninstall nor install a new instance of MySQL
After the restore, the root password remained unknown and does to this day. I'm also not happy with the phpBB2 backup integrity when you use the backup option from the ACP. It is not happy on a large board. Disk space is 10Gb which seems plenty but with all the Plesk bloat and the IIS propensity to generate volumnious log files it can soon get eaten up.
I also like to have the databses remote as I can properly back them up and guard them. The database runs on a Compaq ML350 server with RAID5 hot-swap hard disks and every week the daily backups get written to DLT tape. The server is pretty good. It ran for 13 months without a reboot and when it did reboot it was because of an extended power cut that exceeded the UPS support time! The server also runs my own website, handles the family email via Exchange and acts as a big file server for all the data I've acquired over the years. It has stuff going back to 1999 on it! And just top complete it, there's also an MS SQL server running on it!
Going back to the databases, I've also been a bit reticent of upgrading to phpBB3 as the speed penalty of running phpBB3 queries over the link worries me slightly. What I want to do is to build a test phpBB3 site up on the webserver and see how it performs. With all these things I operate very carefully and cautiously and like to test everything fully before it goes live.