Forum slow, and bigger avatars?

Post by **Noel** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:08 pm

Hi,

Normally the Bwired forum is a bit faster for me (still really slow), but today (04/04/2008) it's really really slow!.. Or.. Is it just with me?

Also. Could we "normal" users get a bigger size avatar setting? The size we can use now is only 64 x 64 pixels. (The one the 'Boss' is using is 84 x 84 pixels.)
I would love to have the 84 x 84 pixel size avatar as I can put more info in it

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Post by **Snelvuur** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:11 pm

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver]Too many connections

/inc_ipgate.asp, line 96

I also have slow responses.. and this message shown is coming more often..

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Post by **Noel** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:12 pm

At the moment I'm also getting some errors from the forum.<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver]Too many connections

/inc_ipgate.asp, line 96<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I guess the forum is under attack..

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Post by **Snelvuur** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:15 pm

A good forum has throttling, and for attacks on the server would have "too many hits, then deny access complete" and such.. dont know it all here.

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Post by **Noel** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:22 pm

Yes I know.. A good forum does have this. I've never used a Snitz forum (do not like .asp), so I do not know if this one does have this option. Also if the forum is badly coded, some 'hacker' could do a MySQL injection, and completely bypass the throttling code.

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Post by **Bwired** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:30 pm

The forum is hosted on a server with more then 1 domain. So the server I use for the Forum is not dedicated. I think there is a website on there which is in the picture at this moment and getting a lot of hits. I agreed with the provider that our forum is being moved to a better and faster serve, this will be done soon. So perhaps the coming time some hours offline! See also the newsflash on the forum mainpage.

@wifi: your wish is my...... the avatar is 84 by 111 to be exact (for best result). is the avatar realtime changing like mine new avatar?
Regards Pieter

Post by **Noel** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:33 pm

Hi Pieter,

Yes my avatar is realtime (well almost realtime). It's on a 5 min cron job

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Post by **TANE** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:37 pm

@Pieter
I can't see you avatar in Firefox (Windows and Mac)
IE en Safari are working fine.

Post by **Bwired** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:49 pm

Thanks Chak, fixed it!

Post by **TANE** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:55 pm

yes....it's cold outside...