Shoutbox disappeared?

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I've turned off all hacks including chatbox to take the load off the server. That's why forum listing looks messy as well. But that is just temporary.
 

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Ok no worries, seems this site is just too popular these days then :D

Sure, I might change it though to similar one. The one we have is outdated code and it creating too much extra load.
Or we'll keep the old one if I don't find a good enough replacement.
 

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The "Thanks" Button seems to be removed aswell ??
Chatbox i think wont be a huge issue especially IF it means forum is online more often it will hopefully encourage members to make posts on forum instead :thum:
 

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welcome beck SU :)
Rocknroll,please work on the server :thum:
closed open big problem :(
understanding ;)
 

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Cant Bump any threads yet ..that function has gone too ??
 

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Yes all those options are vbulletin hacks and not part of default vbulletin installation.
@ViaHussun, yes I am aware it is big problem that forum goes off. I am doing what I can but I am not big of an expert and it is Sunday so can't expect too much help from hosting today. Hopefully they'll figure something out soon.

I'll turn hacks back on as soon as I notice server is not overloading due to ddos.
 

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@ Rock ..its better to have Forum online than not and thats simply just the way it needs to be ,
its running a little faster now than when i tried to make my above post an hour ago ..i had not access at all untill now
i think its true overloading issues need to be looked at and possibly getting some stability back only then should we worry about other vbulletin hacks being added again
but first priority thing is to get forum running again
your doing everything u can and every member should appreciate that fact especially since its a Sunday today
i agree its never easy finding anyone to do anything on a Sunday its very true : )
cheers !
 

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Why do i keep having the urge to try to press a 'Thanks' button thats not even there ..lol's :eek: :confused:
maybbe if its not possible to add back the Thanks button perhaps a 'Like' Button instead mite be an option ?
i shall await what news Hosting will say tommorrow and meanwhile i'll just post a THANKS @ Rock instead :D :thum: :)
 

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Why do i keep having the urge to try to press a 'Thanks' button thats not even there ..lol's :eek: :confused:
maybbe if its not possible to add back the Thanks button perhaps a 'Like' Button instead mite be an option ?
i shall await what news Hosting will say tommorrow and meanwhile i'll just post a THANKS @ Rock instead :D :thum: :)

When I get back home in couple of hours or so I'll try enabling the hacks again but without couple of them that create most load on the server. That would be top stats and chatbox.

In any case I'll have to replace the shoutbox hack either with newer version of the same hack or some lighter different shoutbox hack.
 

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i can wait untill tommorrow believe me ..
Tonight TNA is Live i'd prefer forum to be online incase any feeds are found ,
it is not that important any hack can easily wait things are running great right now give yourself a break @ Rock my friend :D
do'nt stress anything at this time its great to be Back : ))
 

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Sure, I might change it though to similar one. The one we have is outdated code and it creating too much extra load.
Or we'll keep the old one if I don't find a good enough replacement.

what shout box are you using ? Inferno is very Light thats what i was feeling on my server
 

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Forum Crashed few mins ago again with Cloud Flare Error messages ..im not sure if that was you @ Rock adding back some Vbulliten Hacks ??
it was down for only for short time but just letting you know it happened ..seems to be back okay now again ..just 1 or two times it failed to load a page ..hopefully it wont go down for a very long time i do'nt mind just a few mins its understandable and your doing a hell of a good job You have no idea how good it feels to be back . :D
 

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Looks like thos Vbulliten Hacks were making forum good lot slower ??
Do'nt worry about it @ Rock ..u got forum online right now and running sweet enuff speed is better than it has been in months and stable too .
i think its better to have forum online and running good
than have those other options that may well only slow things down but thats only my opinion , i only miss the 'Thanks' button but that can wait so dont worry one bit about it : ))
 

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@Rock

the servers from RedSwitches are very very good we got one its not cheap but 2x Xeon CPU and 64 gb ram can eat everything
 

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@Rock

the servers from RedSwitches are very very good we got one its not cheap but 2x Xeon CPU and 64 gb ram can eat everything

Thanks mate. But it is not really a question of server power. We never run out of ram for example. Yes more power would make a small difference but don't think it would prevent downtime when heavy ddos hits our server.
If you throw enough of junk traffic at the server it is eventually gonna spin out of control.
In case of these vbulletin hacks it is more of the question of them being very old code and not fully compatible with new php we are now running. And some of them are very heavy on mysql usage. I'll replace some of them with more up to date alternatives.
 
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