Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > General Motorcycles only > New DSC Website - Problems

[Iconic944ss]

I think we need some seperate threads to collate problems that peeps are having.

The Webteam can easily subscribe to these and users can either post in the threads or use the Private Message (PM) to let us know of anything fast.

I'll create a separate thread for general comments here:

http://www.ducatisportingclub.com/sh...d.php?p=307209

Issues we know of so far...

Occassional homepage / login problems - being monitored.
Auto-refresh of Today's Posts - Split decision so far; Poll maybe?
Avatars / Sig Blocks - some guidelines issued, need collating.
New Gallery - same - some guidelines issued, need collating.

Website General Performance:
Eamonn is monitoring the performance of the site generally and is able to make adjustments to prevent some errors from happening.
Late last night there was an outage that might well be beyond the control of the webteam (I waited until after 1am with bleary eyes for some sort of resolution but got Nada! - We owe Flanks a drink for being on the ball this morning).

Can this thread please be kept for specific issues that you feel need to be address, can anything else please be put in the General Comments thread.

DSC Webteam
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[CK]

Frank, its great

but, the 2 issues we found yesterday are stil cropping up:

Home Page - AK has no prob when going onto site at all, from home or work PC.
If I leave myself logged in on home pc (or my brothers as I did last night) when I click on the bookmark (which is the home page) it still says I am denied access etc, tho can then click onto forum & rove about as usual.

Same issue with the membership bit - on both PC's for me - but not AK.
The only worry I'd have with that, is others who have joined the board, but then decide to become members might find the same as me in that access is denied to that section.

One PC is running 2000 - and I run xp here. AK has XP & 98 at work (whenever he can 'blag a go' that is )

Just teething snags I'm sure - otherwise its fine (apart from being able to have my own choice of avatar that is but at least AK has his back

[Jools]

I'm sure these are just teething problems and probably bandwidth issues with the interwebbynet or the server rather than the site 'per se', but I've replied to a number of U2U's and other messages only to be met with a 'server cannot be found message'.

[desmobob]

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 12582912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16 bytes) in /var/www/html/dsc/forum/search.php on line 2563

[weeksy2]

Well i couldn't get on for 8 hours yesterday... would that be a problem ?

[desmobob]

vBulletin Message
The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later.

[Eamonn]

Originally Posted by desmobob

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 12582912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16 bytes) in /var/www/html/dsc/forum/search.php on line 2563

Messages of this nature that contain the phrase 'Allowed memory size of xxxxx exhausted' all indicate that the system is running low on memory.

The website currently runs on a server with 256Mbytes of memory - this just isn't enough to support our needs, so I have asked for a quote from our ISP to upgrade the server. Our contract is due to expire mid July, so I am also seeking quotes from other companies to see what options are available.
I mention this not so that you can all send me emails saying '..my mate Steve can do you a good price...' , but more to keep you all up to date on what is happening behind the scenes.
But if your name is Steve and you run a big ISP with spare capacity, I could be interested... !!!


BTW, for the techies: a simple calculation (which I know isn't 100% correct) indicates that if we allocate 12Mbytes to each user, the current system can support just less than 20 users before memory is being swapped in/out. In the evenings we frequently exceed 50 users - hence the majority of the problems are seen in the evening session.

[ath748]

Why can I not upload pic into a gallery that I've just created?? I try, click on "Submit Upload More", and I get the old Page Cannot Be Displayed internet error.

Wasgoingonhere?!!!

[Redsps]

Originally Posted by Eamonn

Messages of this nature that contain the phrase 'Allowed memory size of xxxxx exhausted' all indicate that the system is running low on memory.

The website currently runs on a server with 256Mbytes of memory - this just isn't enough to support our needs, so I have asked for a quote from our ISP to upgrade the server. Our contract is due to expire mid July, so I am also seeking quotes from other companies to see what options are available.
I mention this not so that you can all send me emails saying '..my mate Steve can do you a good price...' , but more to keep you all up to date on what is happening behind the scenes.
But if your name is Steve and you run a big ISP with spare capacity, I could be interested... !!!


BTW, for the techies: a simple calculation (which I know isn't 100% correct) indicates that if we allocate 12Mbytes to each user, the current system can support just less than 20 users before memory is being swapped in/out. In the evenings we frequently exceed 50 users - hence the majority of the problems are seen in the evening session.

Is the server supplied by the isp and they maintain it, or can you supply your own etc.
If so I have some server kit surplus to rquirements now, free to dsc if you want it. Mostly ML350/370 G2/3 DL 360/380 G3/4 with heaps of ram , disks etc. let me know if its of any use, otherwise it's going to get broken up for parts and recycling.
R

[Gizmo]

Just a small one - on the white theme the words "private messages" in the breadcrumb login box uses a white font on a white background so are invisible.