Windows Forum Testing

Craig · December 9, 2007

All,

Last week I purchased a shared server that I intended to use to host my own personal websites. The specification of the server includes a brand new quad core Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 8GB of RAM. The server is located in the UK just outside of London.

I've ran a few tests by moving the backup forum to the server, and so far it was proving to be the same speed if not quicker than our current host.

In light of the above, I will be moving Windows Forum to this server at some point over the next couple of days to see how well it performs under normal load. If tests are successful, then the site will remain there.

This move was only an after thought after seeing how well the shared server performs, and due to recent security issues and lack of support from our current hosts, the change may have come at the right time.

As with every move, disruption will be kept to a minimum; DNS will take approximately 24 hours to update, so during this time the backup site will act as the primary site. Luckily due to recent findings, backup and restoration of the database from one site to another can be completed in under 45 minutes (during which time both sites are unavailable).

I shall keep you all up-to-date as things start moving.

Craig :-)

doug · December 9, 2007

In that case we all wish you every success.

catgate · December 9, 2007

Just let us know when you start and we can then light a few joss sticks for you.

ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb · December 10, 2007

Does that mean that the domain will once again change to neoplanet.co.uk ? :P

andsome · December 10, 2007

Does that mean that the domain will once again change to neoplanet.co.uk ? :P

I hope not. All the very best with the move Craig. :D :D :D

Craig · December 10, 2007

Does that mean that the domain will once again change to neoplanet.co.uk ? :P

Not this time!

It will be windowsforumbackup.org. You'll be automatically redirected to the domain anyway.

Craig · December 10, 2007

Just tried a move, it didn't quite work!

I shall try again tomorrow.

Craig · December 11, 2007

Here we are at the backup site.

I'm interested on how well this site performs, so can you give me feedback as and when possible.

Alan2273 · December 11, 2007

It certainly loads fast.

Does this mean the main site is not accessible while the tests are done.

Craig · December 11, 2007

It certainly loads fast.
Does this mean the main site is not accessible while the tests are done.

That is correct, we don't want to have two lots of data flying around the place. This site will take over the role of the primary site during the tests.

AlanHo · December 11, 2007

Seems as fast and smooth as ever.

Craig · December 11, 2007

Seems as fast and smooth as ever.

I was going to put that down to distance, however, like me, your further away from the server compared to the original site.

Windows Forum is hosted in Gloucester.

Windows Forum Backup is hosted in Maidenhead.

In my case, it takes 5 hops to get to Windows Forum (as I live in Gloucester), compared to 12 hops to get to the backup site in Maidenhead.

The server specifications are totally different. Windows Forum is hosted on multiple load balanced servers with one dedicated SQL server, whereas the current site you are using to read this is on a single server that does everything.

These Quad Core Intel Core 2 Duos are great!

-pops- · December 11, 2007

Fine for me.

catgate · December 11, 2007

The old server site never seemed slow to me (BT are using a lot of old rusty wire around here) and your new acquisition seems just as fast. Good luck to you.

AlanHo · December 11, 2007

Just tried to upload a 48 Kb jpg image - but it will not work.

Got this message

Upload failed. Please ask the administrator to ensure the uploads directory is writeable

Craig · December 11, 2007

Fixed now.

AlanHo · December 11, 2007

Thanks Craig

ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb · December 12, 2007

Very, very much slower than before! Are we back to the box in your cupboard? :huh:

artist · December 12, 2007

can't see any difference yet

Irene · December 12, 2007

Seems OK to me too.

Slight hesitation to next window after posting. :)

andsome · December 12, 2007

Absolutely fine for me. When I clicked on a link to the old site, I was informed that the site had been transfered to the back up, and I was asked to log in. This log in did not work, and I received an error. I had to click on the back up site in My Favourites to get here. That, so far is the only minor problem. :D :D :D

Craig · December 12, 2007

Very, very much slower than before! Are we back to the box in your cupboard?

Pat, could you do a "tracert" to windowsforumbackup.org and post the results for me?

andsome · December 12, 2007

No e mail links to topics are coming through, will this be changed?

deuces wild · December 13, 2007

Very slow tonight trying to open threads.

ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb · December 13, 2007

A bit better today, for me. Here are the traceroutes:

Tracing route to windowsforumbackup.org [91.186.0.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

   1	<1 ms	<1 ms	<1 ms  10.31.1.2
   2	 1 ms	 1 ms	 2 ms  202.94.141.246
   3	 2 ms	 3 ms	 2 ms  202.94.141.1
   4	 2 ms	 2 ms	 2 ms  202.94.141.65
   5	 2 ms	 4 ms	 2 ms  211.9.32.97
   6	 3 ms	 4 ms	 3 ms  202.94.142.42
   7	 6 ms	 3 ms	 3 ms  ge-1-2-3.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net [61.120.145.141]
   8	 3 ms	 4 ms	 3 ms  xe-2-0-0.r21.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [61.213.162.105]
   9	 2 ms	 3 ms	 2 ms  ae-2.r20.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.209]
  10	10 ms	10 ms	11 ms  ae-3.r20.osakjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.210]
  11	10 ms	10 ms	12 ms  ae-4.r21.osakjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.58]
  12   111 ms   112 ms   107 ms  as-1.r21.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.87]
  13   211 ms   209 ms   205 ms  as-1.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.191]
  14   273 ms   279 ms   279 ms  p64-2-1-0.r23.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.255]
  15   279 ms   283 ms   274 ms  xe-4-4.r00.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.134]
  16   275 ms   279 ms   279 ms  83.231.148.19
  17   275 ms   274 ms   282 ms  ns9.eukdns.com [91.186.0.8]

Tracing route to www.windowsforumbackup.org [91.186.0.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

   1	<1 ms	<1 ms	<1 ms  10.31.1.2 
   2	 1 ms	 1 ms	 1 ms  202.94.141.246 
   3	 2 ms	 2 ms	 2 ms  202.94.141.1 
   4	 4 ms	 2 ms	 2 ms  202.94.141.65 
   5   146 ms   203 ms	 3 ms  211.9.32.97 
   6	 6 ms	 4 ms	 2 ms  202.94.142.42 
   7	 3 ms	 2 ms	12 ms  ge-1-2-3.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net [61.120.145.141] 
   8	 2 ms	 2 ms	 2 ms  xe-2-0-0.r21.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [61.213.162.105] 
   9	 2 ms	 2 ms	 2 ms  ae-2.r20.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.209] 
  10	13 ms	11 ms	11 ms  ae-3.r20.osakjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.210] 
  11	11 ms	11 ms	10 ms  ae-4.r21.osakjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.58] 
  12   107 ms   111 ms   118 ms  as-1.r21.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.87] 
  13   210 ms   212 ms   205 ms  as-1.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.191] 
  14   273 ms   277 ms   286 ms  p64-2-1-0.r23.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.255] 
  15   298 ms   288 ms   285 ms  xe-4-4.r00.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.134] 
  16   289 ms   279 ms   274 ms  83.231.148.19 
  17   275 ms   280 ms   279 ms  ns9.eukdns.com [91.186.0.8]

Tracing route to forums.windowsforumbackup.org [91.186.0.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

   1	<1 ms	<1 ms	<1 ms  10.31.1.2 
   2	 4 ms	 3 ms	 1 ms  202.94.141.246 
   3	 2 ms	 2 ms	 3 ms  202.94.141.1 
   4	 9 ms	 3 ms	 2 ms  202.94.141.65 
   5	 2 ms	 2 ms	 2 ms  211.9.32.97 
   6	 3 ms	 1 ms	 1 ms  202.94.142.42 
   7	 3 ms	 2 ms	 2 ms  ge-1-2-3.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net [61.120.145.141] 
   8	 2 ms	 3 ms	 1 ms  xe-2-0-0.r21.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [61.213.162.105] 
   9	 2 ms	 2 ms	 2 ms  ae-2.r20.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.209] 
  10	10 ms	11 ms	10 ms  ae-3.r20.osakjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.210] 
  11	11 ms	12 ms	11 ms  ae-4.r21.osakjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.58] 
  12   103 ms   109 ms   109 ms  as-1.r21.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.87] 
  13   210 ms   210 ms   205 ms  as-1.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.191] 
  14   273 ms   279 ms   281 ms  p64-2-1-0.r23.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.255] 
  15   274 ms   274 ms   280 ms  xe-4-4.r00.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.134] 
  16   280 ms   277 ms   274 ms  83.231.148.19 
  17   279 ms   281 ms   279 ms  ns9.eukdns.com [91.186.0.8]

And here is one to the old windowsforum.org

Tracing route to windowsforum.org [213.171.219.173]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

   1	<1 ms	<1 ms	<1 ms  10.31.1.2 
   2	 2 ms	 1 ms	 1 ms  202.94.141.246 
   3	 2 ms	 2 ms	 6 ms  202.94.141.33 
   4	 3 ms	 3 ms	 1 ms  202.94.141.69 
   5	 4 ms	 2 ms	 7 ms  tky01cr01-tg-1-3.sonytelecom.ad.jp [211.9.32.101] 
   6	 7 ms	 9 ms	 6 ms  msn01cr01-ge-5-1.sonytelecom.ad.jp [202.94.142.6] 
   7	 9 ms	 9 ms	10 ms  msn01br01-ge-0-0.sonytelecom.ad.jp [211.9.61.106] 
   8	 7 ms	 7 ms	 6 ms  Gi5-0.gw1.nrt4.asianetcom.net [203.192.131.225] 
   9	 9 ms	 7 ms	 8 ms  gi5-2.cr1.nrt1.asianetcom.net [202.147.1.122] 
  10   122 ms   116 ms   116 ms  po1-0.gw1.sjc1.asianetcom.net [202.147.50.133] 
  11   129 ms   126 ms   124 ms  213.248.87.37 
  12   185 ms   184 ms   185 ms  nyk-bb1-link.telia.net [213.248.80.2] 
  13   250 ms   251 ms   250 ms  ldn-bb1-link.telia.net [213.248.65.97] 
  14   258 ms   255 ms   255 ms  ldn-b4-link.telia.net [80.91.250.233] 
  15   266 ms   264 ms   262 ms  fasthost-111812-ldn-b4.c.telia.net [213.248.75.154] 
  16   255 ms   258 ms   257 ms  pc2.prt0.fhdis.fasthosts.net.uk [88.208.255.1] 
  17   263 ms   260 ms   261 ms  213.171.217.2 
  18   258 ms   255 ms   259 ms  server213-171-219-173.livedns.org.uk [213.171.219.173]

Very different route - this may be my problem...

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