Our recent web hosting troubles
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It turns out the server company had a massive power failure, but we have now lost faith in them and 13 hours later, our server is still not back, so we will continue to migrate away. At this point most of ocportal.com should be functional. The migration has been very problematic as:
Most things should now be working. I am aware of the following issues:
If you spot any other issues, please let us know here. If I answered something that you think should be in the documentation, please take the initiative and add it to the community documentation. We really need people to help out here and build a well-organised large support resource. |
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Fan in action |
 It tells the logout Page doesn't exist.
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I ask because it was always my understanding that linux based servers run better and it looks like you could have saved some headache if you stuck with a similar server type. Maybe I am wrong? Anyways very interested in learning why the change to a windows based server. I sucks about the previous server/host experience.
Legends of Nor'Ova: A site powered by ocPortal; a role playing community where you can purchase the LofN core rule book and participate in the forum-based RPG.
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It's just because we had it already  . We took it over from another company some time back, and it's capacity was hardly being used.I would generally recommend Linux. There is no good reason to host a PHP system on Windows, and it is a bit more difficult, and there is of course a licensing cost that would be covered in the monthly fee – but if you do know what you're doing it can work as well. If I answered something that you think should be in the documentation, please take the initiative and add it to the community documentation. We really need people to help out here and build a well-organised large support resource. |
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Thanks, and best of luck getting everything back up and running! |
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Icbrett, I don't think it would be Elief. I could be wrong of course, but ocPortal has only been recommending Elief as an affordable host choice for a short time now, which leads me to think that the server company they were using for their downed server was not Elief. As far as I can tell, Elief would still be a good choice. I had settled on TMD Hosting before I knew of Elief, after a long and aggravating search to try and sniff out good hosts, and my ocportal site has ran alright with them if you are uncertain about Elief, despite being an "offering the heavens and the earth in bandwidth and storage" shared hosting company… *sighs* (when I signed up with them, that wasn't quite the case…) Anyways though, I think you'd do well to go ahead and use Elief. They seem alright.
Legends of Nor'Ova: A site powered by ocPortal; a role playing community where you can purchase the LofN core rule book and participate in the forum-based RPG.
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Hi, No, nothing to do with Elief – it's not one of our recommended hosts, as we have always used a dedicated server we have managed ourselves. If I answered something that you think should be in the documentation, please take the initiative and add it to the community documentation. We really need people to help out here and build a well-organised large support resource. |
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Things are getting back to normal now. The only thing I'm aware of that is not working now is the chat room, which I hope to fix soon .Chris If I answered something that you think should be in the documentation, please take the initiative and add it to the community documentation. We really need people to help out here and build a well-organised large support resource. |
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We're now running off Facebook's PHP compiler (it's a re-implementation of PHP called "Hip Hop PHP"), which is highly experimental. I've spent most of the last week finding and reporting bugs (26 in total, not the most fun process I have to admit) and working around them. We're probably the first major site other than Facebook to make use of it, so it's quite an achievement and we're definitely early adopters here (I suspect a few more little glitches will come up up over the next few days, but we'll get them resolved as they do). The speed boost it has given is very obvious. All the fixes we've made will be included in the next version of ocPortal, should anyone with a dedicated server and advanced Linux skills want to make use of the approximate 2x speed increase it gives. Other than this, people might notice some graphical differences – we've upgraded to something we have not yet really announced properly yet  – more info soon.
If I answered something that you think should be in the documentation, please take the initiative and add it to the community documentation. We really need people to help out here and build a well-organised large support resource. |
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If I answered something that you think should be in the documentation, please take the initiative and add it to the community documentation. We really need people to help out here and build a well-organised large support resource. |
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It sure is interesting though! I'm going to enjoy deploying this for for some of our clients where appropriate – it's getting reasonably stable now and offers over a 2x speedup and much better tolerance for high loads. We set ourselves a target of being able to take 1/2 million ocPortal page views per hour, and through Hip Hop PHP and our static guest cache, we've achieved it! If I answered something that you think should be in the documentation, please take the initiative and add it to the community documentation. We really need people to help out here and build a well-organised large support resource. |
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Legends of Nor'Ova: A site powered by ocPortal; a role playing community where you can purchase the LofN core rule book and participate in the forum-based RPG.
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If I answered something that you think should be in the documentation, please take the initiative and add it to the community documentation. We really need people to help out here and build a well-organised large support resource. |
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