Server?

[Drew Dowdell]

Does it seem snappier since the power outage? The System logs show a far less burdened server....

[William Maley]

Does it seem snappier since the power outage? The System logs show a far less burdened server....

Yeah, whenever I publish a story.. its much quicker to post.

[Drew Dowdell]

Well this bodes well for the storage speed upgrade we're getting on Monday. Storage speed has always been out primary source of slowness.

[Robert Hall]

Galleries (like the one for the new Mazda 3) are very slow to load.

[G. David Felt]

So far there does seem to be a bit more snappiness to the site, images upload faster, posts faster, have not spent any time in the galleries. Looking forward to Monday.

[daves87rs]

So far it is slow to me......

[FAPTurbo]

I think it's faster because everybody decided to leave.

[Drew Dowdell]

Galleries (like the one for the new Mazda 3) are very slow to load.

Good to know. The picture uploads are on a different drive (HDD rather than SSD) than the rest of the site.

I think it's faster because everybody decided to leave.

browsing traffic seems roughly the same

[G. David Felt]

How old before topics/posts are moved to the HD from the SSD? I clearly see a delay when I go in to pull up things a month or more older. Before everything seemed sluggish but now current topics that are being posted too seem to snap and older topics clearly are sluggish.

[Drew Dowdell]

Only uploaded pictures are stored on the HDDs. Everything else, regardless of age, is stored on the SSD. If you are looking a a thread with lots of pictures in it, it may be pulling harder from the HDDs and feeling slower. SSD is more pricey, but I might upgrade all of our storage to SSD for speed reasons if the performance doesn't improve enough after the upgrade.

[G. David Felt]

Thanks Drew, that makes sense considering I was looking at an old topic with lots of pictures. I am surprised that their storage would not have bigger cache controllers as you can make HD storage almost as quick as SSD by using a controller with 128GB or 256GB cache on the controller.

I appreciate all you do as the site has been amazing under your stewardship.

Thank you,