anthony
Founder
Technical Talk
Growth has been constant here. Our growth chart for users online and pages viewed is an overall slight and constant increase. As such, this impacts our server. What I had setup was great, it just lacked some of the flexibility needed to match growth. It was always increase this, but not this.
Solution -- I have done a whole bunch behind the scenes that now allows far greater flexibility for what we need here. I can increase / decrease server resources as I need with only a short amount of downtime. All this was done by increasing our flexibility, without increasing costs. In fact, we now have more resources available for longevity, with a very slight decrease in monthly cost.
The server now runs php7 which when compared with php5.6 provides us a 2x performance benefit in serving requests. In other words, PHP is now running at twice the speed in producing the pages on the fly for you when you click x link to show y page.
We now have a gigabit port in use, allowing much greater bandwidth spikes so there is no bottlenecking impact.
We now have 6 cores instead of 4 running the server, which means less chance of any bottlenecks in processing requests between your needs and the solid state drives. We run the latest, stable, secure software to prevent known and past vulnerabilities. We have attempted to close even more vulnerabilities at the server for overall security of private data.
There are now stricter protocols in place for security between our server and your browser. Don't get me wrong, it increases your security, it does not negate all vulnerabilities. That, IMHO, is an impossibility for anything electronic.
There are always teething problems when upgrading server software... which is what has been happening here over the past week. I have probably 99% of issues fixed, leaving the chance for any further issues as slim.
Please continue to report any issues via ticket if you find them, so they can be accepted or rejected as server problems. If you don't report them via ticket, we may not know about them.
Happy PTSD'ing.
Growth has been constant here. Our growth chart for users online and pages viewed is an overall slight and constant increase. As such, this impacts our server. What I had setup was great, it just lacked some of the flexibility needed to match growth. It was always increase this, but not this.
Solution -- I have done a whole bunch behind the scenes that now allows far greater flexibility for what we need here. I can increase / decrease server resources as I need with only a short amount of downtime. All this was done by increasing our flexibility, without increasing costs. In fact, we now have more resources available for longevity, with a very slight decrease in monthly cost.
The server now runs php7 which when compared with php5.6 provides us a 2x performance benefit in serving requests. In other words, PHP is now running at twice the speed in producing the pages on the fly for you when you click x link to show y page.
We now have a gigabit port in use, allowing much greater bandwidth spikes so there is no bottlenecking impact.
We now have 6 cores instead of 4 running the server, which means less chance of any bottlenecks in processing requests between your needs and the solid state drives. We run the latest, stable, secure software to prevent known and past vulnerabilities. We have attempted to close even more vulnerabilities at the server for overall security of private data.
There are now stricter protocols in place for security between our server and your browser. Don't get me wrong, it increases your security, it does not negate all vulnerabilities. That, IMHO, is an impossibility for anything electronic.
There are always teething problems when upgrading server software... which is what has been happening here over the past week. I have probably 99% of issues fixed, leaving the chance for any further issues as slim.
Please continue to report any issues via ticket if you find them, so they can be accepted or rejected as server problems. If you don't report them via ticket, we may not know about them.
Happy PTSD'ing.