Paddleducks
General => Paddleducks Website/Forum => Topic started by: Eddy Matthews on March 07, 2008, 06:36:58 AM
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Our host is experiencing difficulties with their Linux servers - This can give very slow browsing, and occassional #500 Internal Server errors....
They are working on the problem and hope to have it sorted soon.
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According to our hosts server status logs, the previous problems have been fixed...... Yeah right!! If you beleive that you'll beleive anything!
After hundreds of errors this morning I've reported it AGAIN - Lets hope they actually do something about it this time around!
For anyone else experiencing these issues I can only apologise - Unfortunately it's out of my hands :(
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Hi PD's....if there are electronic problems Eddy...I would look to the name of our member that appears in BOLD text..whereas we mere mortals...apppear in standard text... :nahnah...or did that Bandit the DOG slip you an extra :gift to put Johns name up in lights :shhh or is it just my :breakcomp here in OZ :sobbing :trophy :beer...I rest my case your Honour...just view the evidence below.......... :hehe
derekwarner_decoy, Red_Hamish, karaso, stephenf10, tonyh, gyula, michael, Eddy Matthews, bogstandard, thewharfonline, gretzschel, Kiwi, clifforddward, crash93, steamboatmodel
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Hi Pd's...more problems?.....if there are electronic problems Eddy...I would look to the name of our member that appears in BOLD text........ :sunglasses :sorry...but here is another story.......
----- Original Message -----
From: Derek L Warner Pty Ltd
To: admin@paddleducks.co.uk
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 7:55 PM
Subject: modellbau-niggel.de
Hi Eddy - I attempeted to add a new link in PD's ......Model Steam Engines...of
Name = 'modellbau-niggel.de'
WWW. modellbau-niggel.de
My Comment
A German manufacturer of quality and unique steam fittings & accessories for model steam projects ...
However when I submitted the link it advised me that the link must be approved & then when I re submitted it.. got the following error message
The link already exists in category Model Steam Engines with link title of modellbau-niggel.de
Is there a review period for such new link submissions?..if so I was not aware......I assumed the facility for Members to add links was to take the load from yourself or other Moderators
Crash93 recently drew our attention to this WEB site & I have since ordered a component from the owner Winfried Niggel & my vote is that he does have quality unique products at competative costs..so hence my wish to add the link to our WEB site
regards Derek
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I plead, and so does Bandit, totally innocent of ALL charges against us.
Unlike some ex convict stock who must have been found guilty, on the grounds they are still in that insect and snake infested swamp they call Oz. Extolling the place as a virtual paradise, just so that we are suckered into going out there to bail them out.
I rest my case, and so does Bandit.
By the way Eddie, I have no idea what he is on about, but I thought I had better humour him.
John
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Derek,
Any new links that are posted have to be "Approved" before they become visible - This just prevents any of the spammers from posting unsuitable links....
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Hi PD's ...from the shores of OZ...& here I provide evidence to the Crown that one Bogstandard.... :clap..has a higher STATUS in print FONT size than others....... :nahnah...open the attachment...go to the bottom of the page & view the member listing......who has an EMBOLDENED name >>>>>>>> yes...John Major :great
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Hi PD's ...from the shores of OZ...& here I provide evidence to the Crown that one Bogstandard.... :clap..has a higher STATUS in print FONT size than others....... :nahnah...open the attachment...go to the bottom of the page & view the member listing......who has an EMBOLDENED name >>>>>>>> yes...John Major :great
It's in bold because you have him marked as a "buddy" in your profile Derek.....
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OK... :sorry..PD's...upon latest information from our Administrator.....the Crown from OZ must withdraw the offence....
Thanks Eddy....I will certainly revise my member listing attributes....which brings into another question :thinking... do we have Family Memberships available in PD's? :terrific
Bogstandard may wish to nominate Bandit & Vinnie as associate members ...as these [SUB members] certainly assisted & got John through the tough MATHS & artistic work in his treaste of JUNK ...... :beer :towel
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46 of our hosts Linux servers crashed tonight, causing more than 1000 websites to go offline - One of which was Paddleducks! :(
The other issues of slow browsing, and #500 internal server errors still haven't been fixed!
All of these problems originated from when our host upgraded from PHP4 to PHP5 - The core code that runs the scripts our website uses to function. My opinion is that they should ditch PHP5 and downgrade back to PHP4....
I realise that this is annoying for everyone - But beleive me, it's more annoying for us, as we pay for this crap service! I'll continue to complain until things are eventually sorted - Or I'll move the whole damned lot to a different host. One way or another this WILL be fixed!!
Okay, rant over.....
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Eddie, never occurred to me until your latest post. Who pays the fees for the web site? Is there any way forum members can contribute towards the cost, please? Oldie.
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Hi PD's......Oldie.......I posed this same question in December 2004 :squareone....not sure.....I could always cash in a few :beer empty beer cans or SNAKE skins [as bogstandard thinks] & convert them to EUROS @ the scrap metal & skin merchant ....& send then to Eddy..... :hehe :nono :terrific :sunglasses :sobbing :shoot :shhh ...so for every EURO [10] ten I post away I need to include....
10% tax for my bank + extras
10% tax for the receiving bank + extras
10% tax for the conversion rate + extras
45% of landed cost as postage & freight + extras
So my $AUD10 donation now equates my cost prior to transfer of $four thousand & twenty six dollars + 29 cents [+ extras]...see what I mean :ranting
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Eddie, never occurred to me until your latest post. Who pays the fees for the web site? Is there any way forum members can contribute towards the cost, please? Oldie.
The site is paid for by myself, Walter Snowdon, and David Allinson - We do it simply because we have a passion for paddlers, and models in particular, and we want to promote that passion to a wider audience...
Ever since Paddleducks was first formed by Paul Jordan, on the Yahoo network, it's always been our wish that this should be free for the members. And that continues to be the case.
So whilst we all sincerely appreciate the kind offers of help, we will respectfully decline Oldie and Derek.
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I would just like to say how much I appreciate your work, and thank you very much. Oldie
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I would just like to say how much I appreciate your work, and thank you very much. Oldie
Your thanks makes it all worthwhile - It's always nice to be appreciated :)
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Hello Eddy,
I'm sure you are quite aware of it but I've been receiving a lot of #500 Internal Server Error messages over the last hour or 2. I report this not to complain but rather to assist in whatever way I can according to the recommendation of the server error message. Perhaps you can site messages like this to your server as proof of the problem.
I too would like to echo the thanks that Oldie expressed for the fine work that you do on this site. The professional quality of the site was one of the first things that attracted me to it and convinced me to join immediately.
Thanks again,
Randy the Dinosaur Soup Man
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Thanks Randy.....
Oh boy do I know about all the problems this evening!!
Some extremely irate messages have been sent to our host - Basically if this isn't resolved I will change to another host. After 10 days of complaining to them I'm getting nowhere fast!
It seems that their "so called" engineers are unable to resolve these issues, and we cannot continue as we are! And it's not just Paddleducks that is having a problem - EVERY website that is hosted on their Unix servers are experiencing the same issues!
The downside is that if we do change hosts, Paddleducks could be offline for 2-3 days whilst the new IP address gets circulated around the web. I consider that a minor glitch to put an end to all this sillyness - So we'll see what our current host have to say on the matter...... But the clock is ticking!
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Hi PD's.... :thinking...Eddy..I posted this a few months ago......the % of down time per unit day since the latest change to the service provider in reality is pretty LOW
We are a PD site......not NASA..if their systems shut down...then we would have a :ranting :shoot :sobbing :offtopic big worry
Possibly the devil you know......... :breakcomp...we all know the rest of the story but :shhh the outsiders :picknose
PS...what has happened to the emoticon of the Cannon?
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Hey Eddy
I agree with Derek that the inconvenience concerning the website is minor. For the most part it simply requires clicking on the desired section one more time and you are there. But this is your site and I'm sure you have your expectations on how it should be working. But I think I speak for the majority of us when I say it's the best site for model boating, let alone paddlers, that we'll ever see.
Thanks,
Randy the Dinosaur Soup Man
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My most sincere thanks to you Eddy, and to your co-moderators for such a magnificent site, even more so since your revamp. I have learned so much from yourself and and all the members of Paddleducks.
And I just love the humorous exchanges
Well done Eddy,
Kiwi
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After talking things over with Walter Snowdon and David Allinson, it has been decided to move the Paddleducks website to a new host...
The problems with constant "Internal Server Errors", emails going missing, the server running out of memory when processing data, and numerous other things, just cannot be sorted by our hosts so called engineers. For example, I checked the system logs and there have been over 2000 errors generated today alone!!
So we have decided that enough is enough, and we should move now rather than waiting any longer. The worst of these problems have been ongoing for almost three weeks now, but some issues have been going on for much longer! Out of memory errors have been plagueing us for a year!!
Moving to a new host isn't as big a deal as some people may think - It's basically just sitting in front of a keyboard for 8-10 hours moving data around - But the downside is that our new hosts IP address will take time to circulate round the web, and because of that you will almost certainly get "Page Not Found" errors whilst the changeover takes place. This can last for up to 4 days, so don't think we've gone forever - We will be back, and hopefully on a much more reliable server!
The changeover will probably begin on tuesday 18th March 2008 - And at that point you will see the forum etc will be taken offline, so you'll get a screen saying the system is offline for maintenance. After that there will be the period outlined above where you may get "Page Not Found" errors (which may last for up to 4 days for some of you), and finally everything will be back online on our new host.
So bear with us whilst this takes place - Just keep trying every now and then, until it comes back online. It shouldn't take too long! Famous last words!! :)
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Hi PD's...Eddy....are all of the links to LINKS still :crash down?...certainly are here in OZ :breakcomp....... :towel
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Hi PD's...Eddy....are all of the links to LINKS still :crash down?...certainly are here in OZ :breakcomp....... :towel
There's definately a problem there Derek - I'll take a look at it later today...
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Hi PD's...Eddy....are all of the links to LINKS still :crash down?...certainly are here in OZ :breakcomp....... :towel
Hmmmm..... The problem is caused by one of the security scripts our host runs. So I need to find a new solution for the "Links" pages..... Bear with me, it may take a while - I've looked already but haven't found anything suitable. I'll probably end up writing some code to do it, but that won't be done very quickly as I have a few family problems to deal with right now :(
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The main thing is Eddy the site has been fast all the time since the move, and no slow loads when logging on . it is so much faster than it was . thanks for all the work you have all put in
Peter
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Well...what do I say PD's ????? ..... :bravo....as most self respecting PD members will have an alternate backup to important links any way....so have a :coffee & :thinking plenty of time Eddy to solve this very minor glitch........ :hehe still the only & :no1b WEB site for our passion
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Eddie, it is of no particular consequence, especially compared with some of the other problems, but can you please explain why whenever I go to the home page or to the forum for the first time in a few days it always shows "Last visited" as todays current date and time? Also may I add my 2 cents worth to the plaudits, a few small glitches occaisionally do not detract form an enjoyable and extremely useful site. Cheers, Ian.
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I assume you mean the "Last Visited" bit in the left hand menu Ian?
If so, it's a minor bug in the front-end portal, and shouldn't affect anything from working as it should. The forum should still know when you REALLY last visited and show new messages etc etc...
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Hi PD's...Eddy....are all of the links to LINKS still :crash down?...certainly are here in OZ :breakcomp....... :towel
Hmmmm..... The problem is caused by one of the security scripts our host runs. So I need to find a new solution for the "Links" pages..... Bear with me, it may take a while - I've looked already but haven't found anything suitable. I'll probably end up writing some code to do it, but that won't be done very quickly as I have a few family problems to deal with right now :(
I've started to write a new piece of code to handle the "Links" - Hopefully I can do it in such a way as not to break our hosts security features.....
This may take a little while, but hopefully in the next 1-2 weeks we should have everything back online - Famous last words! :breakcomp
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Hi Eddy,
One thing I have noticed, when there is a list of photos in a post in thumbnail size and we enlarge them, the scroll bar is on the bottom. Is there any way to have scroll bars for each photo?
Regards,
Gerald
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Hi Eddy,
One thing I have noticed, when there is a list of photos in a post in thumbnail size and we enlarge them, the scroll bar is on the bottom. Is there any way to have scroll bars for each photo?
Regards,
Gerald
Can't really say that I considered it a problem Gerald, but I take your point.....
I cannot get the code to put scrollbars for every image, but I have modified it so that it will open images in a new popup window when they are clicked on..... I think it's better - Comments?
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Hi Eddy:
I prefer your method of photos popping up in a new window....my 2 cents worth....
Regards,
Cliff
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I believe that the benefits of the pop-up technique outweigh the disadvantages.
I had just put up a series where it was nice seeing the two on the one screen, aligned vertically, but that isn't a frequent need.
With everything cached, going back for a repeat view was quick.
I am not sure if a repeat view of the popup version will be as quick, or if it will be a fresh load each time.
Two other simultaneous changes:
* Thumbnails now are grouped four abreast, making for compact viewing. This is a good feature, but not exploited very often, as most posts don't have more than one image.
* Information about the number of views has vanished. Boo Hiss. It isn't critical from the perspective of a viewer, or a guest. As a regular poster of photos, I like that feedback. I don't need a special post just to say 'That was a great post Roderick', but the viewing stats gave unobtrusive, efficient and sufficient feedback.
Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
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That looks great Eddy,
Thanks