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FC slow again 29/30 April

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Dunk
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Re: FC slow again 29/30 April

Post by Dunk » Thu May 02, 2013 11:20 am

Just a little update for you all

MikeB and Adam D are working on the issues which appears to be quite simply that we have just outgrown our server (yet again!), and we need an increase in server specs once more. We are nearly at 9000 members on FC alone, so it is starting to take it's toll.

Please bare with us whilst we endeavour to sort this out. We may have some downtime if we need to switch servers, but we will try and give a heads up where possible.

If you cannot log in, then I would highly recommend that you follow our Twitter and Facebook 'Aeroresource' accounts for the latest news on server status.

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Re: FC slow again 29/30 April

Post by blacknight154 » Thu May 02, 2013 12:24 pm

Hi Dunk

Thanks for the update, I have experienced the same issues as all the fellow FC's that have posted on this thread, it just goes to prove how popular this and its sister sites have become. To the guys that are dealing with this issue thank you, once sorted may this and its fellow sites go from strength to strength.

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Re: FC slow again 29/30 April

Post by podge » Thu May 02, 2013 12:36 pm

Thanks for keeping us informed. Appreciate all the hard work that is put into FC, it's a great site. Cheers :thumbs:

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Re: FC slow again 29/30 April

Post by Skywatcher » Thu May 02, 2013 4:16 pm

Yer iv been having some problems with the site being slow these last cuple of days ,Thankyou for the update on the sever situation:)keep up the great work :)
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Re: FC slow again 29/30 April

Post by MikeB » Thu May 02, 2013 5:25 pm

Just to keep you all up to date on what's happening.

Essentially, with our server (VPS), you get guaranteed memory and burstable memory. The guaranteed memory is always there to be used, as the name indicates, but the burstable is only available if the server has it free (other containers' are not using it). It seems that we've been relying on this burstable memory when we get busy, and that's been fine. However, recently, for some reason (overloading of containers on the server, or just higher than normal traffic on the other containers) this burstable ram hasn't been available so we're slowing to a halt due to lack of memory.

So the short of it is, we need to upgrade, we're going through the options now and will announce a date when we'll have a small amount of downtime for the swap to commence.

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Re: FC slow again 29/30 April

Post by MikeB » Thu May 02, 2013 8:40 pm

For anyone wanting to keep up to date with the server problems, please keep an eye on our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/AeroReso ... 7395744639" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) or Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/AeroResource" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;).

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Re: FC slow again 29/30 April

Post by Dunk » Sat May 04, 2013 9:22 am

Another update.

Server swap is taking place today (possibly into tomorrow), so things should be back to normal for the start of the week.

Dunk

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Re: FC slow again 29/30 April

Post by BOLLO » Sat May 04, 2013 9:43 am

Thanks for the update. :thumb:
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Re: FC slow again 29/30 April

Post by Lowfly11 » Sat May 04, 2013 7:04 pm

Thanks for the info Dunk.Regards Tim :thumb:

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Re: FC slow again 29/30 April

Post by johnwayne » Sun May 05, 2013 10:05 am

Explanation of problem causes and efforts to resolve much appreciated guys - thanks.

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