Very Cool new PPRuNe software
Busy Server
Joined: Sep 2001
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From: Hong Kong
HAve to say I am surprised by these "Too Busy - Please Try Later" messages as well - I am getting now a LOT more than before the upgrade, one of the reasons for which was (I believed) to increase capacity to avoid them.
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From: err, *******, we have a problem
As I understand it the upgrade is in 2 parts... 1st part, the software you see before plus most importantly a database to drive it all is done. 2nd part is perhaps the most important, and is removal of the entire forum to a dedicated server in the UK. That is due to happen very soon
That's my understanding... blame Dispatcher if it's wrong, it wos him wot told me on Saturday over a beer! And he is owed several beers by all the PPRuNers for the amount of time and work he's put in recently... quite staggering.
£6
That's my understanding... blame Dispatcher if it's wrong, it wos him wot told me on Saturday over a beer! And he is owed several beers by all the PPRuNers for the amount of time and work he's put in recently... quite staggering.
£6
Dir. PPRuNe Line Service
Joined: Dec 1998
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From: Southern England
£6 - close but no cigar. 
I will accept the drinks though!
The new server is also in the U.S. as we couldn't find anyone in Europe who could supply us with 250Gb of bandwidth each month at a rate we could afford.
The changeover will almost certainly take place sometime before the end of April. There will be a period when PPRuNe is not available, we'll obviously try and make this as short as possible. I'm going to be preping the new server over the next few days...
--Mik
I will accept the drinks though!The new server is also in the U.S. as we couldn't find anyone in Europe who could supply us with 250Gb of bandwidth each month at a rate we could afford.
The changeover will almost certainly take place sometime before the end of April. There will be a period when PPRuNe is not available, we'll obviously try and make this as short as possible. I'm going to be preping the new server over the next few days...
--Mik
Joined: Mar 2002
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From: Surrey, UK
"......A computer glitch this morning led to travel hell for thousands of aviators as the key PPRune server centre briefly failed. Bull!!!! handling was interrupted for several hours and frenzied men smelling faintly of beer and Avtur howled brutally at cybercafe and airline IT staff from LHR to WON after they were denied their fix of bitchology, unfounded rumours, nothing-on-the-clock stories and libel. A spokesman said "We regret the inconvienence, but the maintenance work was absolutely necessary. When something like this happens, we have to reduce the banter flowrate by about 50% to maintain safety regulations." A member we asked said, "Yeah, it's too bad, but they're good people. You can't imagine how much pressure they are under." "
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From: Melbourne VIC AUS
Opera
Somewhere above, rehkram made the comment that he had tried Netscape 6.2.2 and found it better than Netscape 4.7. He also said that older versions of Netscape were a "not very forgiving, strict browser". I have tried 6.2 and found it clunkier than 4.7.
I took Danny's advice and downloaded the ad-enhanced(!) version of Opera to dedicate to Pprune. Unfortunately, although it has some great features, eg the full screen switching, it really is "very unforgiving" about what I take to be WWW interupts, and also, any secure sites that I try to reach reject my approach instantly.
Can anyone advise me about configurative adjustments to avoid the extremely frequent:
"Connection closed by remote server" alarms and messages? These occur even when addressing sites in the same city.
Gru
I took Danny's advice and downloaded the ad-enhanced(!) version of Opera to dedicate to Pprune. Unfortunately, although it has some great features, eg the full screen switching, it really is "very unforgiving" about what I take to be WWW interupts, and also, any secure sites that I try to reach reject my approach instantly.
Can anyone advise me about configurative adjustments to avoid the extremely frequent:
"Connection closed by remote server" alarms and messages? These occur even when addressing sites in the same city.
Gru
ENTREPPRUNEUR
Joined: Jun 2001
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From: The 60s
Sorry everyone. I wondered why moving to a database server package would make things faster. Flexible maybe- fast? no way.
Well I don't know about you but I'm getting server busy just as often as before.
Well I don't know about you but I'm getting server busy just as often as before.
Dir. PPRuNe Line Service
Joined: Dec 1998
Posts: 563
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From: Southern England
It *was* faster for a few days.
We had to move some software which ran on another machine onto the server machine which slowed things down again
However if we were still using the old bulletin board software then things at this stage would be really slow.
The next stage is to move everything over to a new, much more powerful machine. I've spent rather a lot of hours preping the new system and still have a lot to do before we can make the move. Be patient!!!!
...Mik
We had to move some software which ran on another machine onto the server machine which slowed things down again
However if we were still using the old bulletin board software then things at this stage would be really slow.
The next stage is to move everything over to a new, much more powerful machine. I've spent rather a lot of hours preping the new system and still have a lot to do before we can make the move. Be patient!!!!
...Mik
Danny