Slowness and things being broken

[Kieran]

Guys -

You may notice that things are going haywire at the moment. Something's happened to our hosting package and it's reset our disk quotas to 2GB. Not good, seeing how the site currently has a 9GB footprint!/pan

I don't know exactly what's happened or why - All our bills are paid.

I've raised a support ticket with the hosting company, so hopefully we'll be fixed soon.:happy:

[Nutter_John]

i did notice that when i sent Pagers or PM's they did not send and disappeared

[richy rich]

And the uploader is not working.

[Kieran]

Dunno about pagers/PMs, but certainly the uploader is directly related to the issues with hosting. As soon as we get near the quota, the uploader/attachments is the first thing to go offline.

[Beastlee]

9GB??? Jeez there has got to be a whole shedload of waste in there.

[Kieran]

Okay, that should have sorted out.

Now to try and bring the disk usage back to a more reasonable level... :smash:

[richy rich]

9GB??? Jeez there has got to be a whole shedload of waste in there.
I don't think 9GB is that much considering all info, vids and pics on here.

[ANTHONY]

I don't think 9GB is that much considering all info, vids and pics on here.and posts from pitslayer/pan

[Kieran]

and posts from pitslayer/pan

/lol

[White Lightning]

I don't think 9GB is that much considering all info, vids and pics on here.

Yeah, but it's the rate at which it's expanding :speechles

We hit the 8GB limit in January and increased the disk space to 10GB (which cost a fair few £££). Now we are only 500MB of that.

Kieran - may be time for an IT EGM to get this sorted! Tonight, I will take a look at the notes I have from when the hosting company looked at this before on our behalf.

[Beastlee]

Who's hosting?

I still reckon 9GB is a lot for what data is held on here. The movies aren't that big due to the uploader restrictions.

[White Lightning]

Who's hosting?


Hosting Unlimited

http://www.hosting-unlimited.net/

[Nutter_John]

sure it's not

www.hosting-verylimited.net

:p

[Beastlee]

Never heard of them, not sure what it's costing at the mo but would it be worth swapping to a dedicated server? A reliable US dedicated server doesn't cost much and provides bags of space and bandwidth. Probably more than the cost of the current hosting but you'd really see the difference.

I used to manage a few of these and they were fantastic.

[Kieran]

Kieran - may be time for an IT EGM to get this sorted! Tonight, I will take a look at the notes I have from when the hosting company looked at this before on our behalf.

I'll be online around 9PM tonight.

[Johnny_Cashed]

Given the IT skills of people in here, we must be one of the most over qualified car clubs!

[Beastlee]

Must be an IT thing to go for VR4s/Galants.

[ANTHONY]

now I'm not complaining about paying membership I'm all in favorer of it But how do OZVR4.COM have the same format of site but dont charge? are they useing a differnt host over there?

[Paul Beazer]

Perhaps they host it themselves?

[Nick Mann]

I would guess that the site is not so big, or the owner pays the bills from his own pocket. I'm not on there much, so I can't really say. Maybe ask?

From a UK point of view, the membership fee helps pay for things like the gazebo & flags for meets and shows, plus it puts money in the kitty to buy tickets for shows up front. (Remember the days when you had to pay months in advance, because the club couldn't buy tickets up front?) It also obviously covers the hosting fees, stocks of merchandise, business cards, etc.

[Beastlee]

Without sounding like I'm critising..typing messages never gets the context across properly.

Do OzVR4 offer the membership extras that CVR4 does? Do they buy up extra related items for display stands, etc and do the funds help buy workshop manuals (regardless of the resale potential its the help that counts) and extras at events?

I think regardless of host you have a high cost. I can get plenty of space to put the site on and even mail servers for it all but the bandwidth is a killer. If OZVR4 is hosted privately they need a decent connection speed which again costs. I'll do some digin with my hosting contacts and see what deals are available but can one of the committee please PM me with some ballpark prices to help me work out what you have in the way of funding if you want me to do it.

[bradc]

yeah Van pays for it all himself. Their site isn't too big, and they aren't hosting videos at all, and the pic attachment max is 100kb, so they won't be using a lot of space.

Ultimately they will probably start asking for donations.

On that note - Paul, what's up with you being a regular (L)user now? Cause you're selling the V6?

[Beastlee]

Guess I took too long to type.....yeah I mean what Nick says /haz

[Paul Beazer]

On that note - Paul, what's up with you being a regular (L)user now? Cause you're selling the V6?
Cheeky! No im "trying" (not very hard at all) to sell the V6, but i've just not got round to sorting the renewal out yet! You wont get rid of me that easily!

[White Lightning]

Just so that everyone knows, we have resolved the disk space worries in the short term thanks to Kenneth. We had lots of websites statistics on the server which were taking up 1.8GB. Those have been cleared out. So, now we are using around 7.6GB of our 10GB allocation.

The next thing to tackle is the videos as they are taking up 2.4GB.

[bradc]

youtube them :)

[ANTHONY]

I would guess that the site is not so big, or the owner pays the bills from his own pocket. I'm not on there much, so I can't really say. Maybe ask?

From a UK point of view, the membership fee helps pay for things like the gazebo & flags for meets and shows, plus it puts money in the kitty to buy tickets for shows up front. (Remember the days when you had to pay months in advance, because the club couldn't buy tickets up front?) It also obviously covers the hosting fees, stocks of merchandise, business cards, etc. as i said I'm all in favorer of paying it was just an observation on another club

[Nick Mann]

Yeah, I appreciate that. I was trying to summarise some of the places the money goes.

From the point of view of another club, the MLR charges £35 for one years membership.