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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (44678)	9/9/2003 12:58:41 PM
From: Lee Lichterman III	Read Replies (4) of 52237

Off Topic As those of you that visit us know, Marketswing is down for server problems. We have been trying various things but long story short, we have outgrown most affordable low end servers. We were supposed to run some tests on an isolated dedicated test server as we don't know what the problem is. The server hosts don't like our message board as it keeps crashing their server but it never did this on the old host server or the 1st server we were on at this same company before my mail problems which caused a move to another one of their servers. They think the problem is with the board but I have checked it out and even had the board programmer log in and check it out and it is set up perfect. I think they don't know what they are doing on the server end and have the apache set up wrong so that it isn't releasing resources once a cgi script runs and finishes. We always ran on real UNIX servers but this one is a friggin DELL piece of crud with LINUX simulating UNIX. It acts like a runaway script but the processes end like they are supposed to yet the CPU just keeps grabbing more and more resources after it completes. It has never done this before and I have reloaded it twice now and it tests out perfect each time. Just the resource use climbs from .04 to above 5 and then shoots all the way up until it is either killed in root or the server crashes. If these severs from DELL are anything like our work computers from DELL, that is probably the real problem. Our work machines crash every couple of hours like they are loaded with Windows 95 or something. The support team here though is very very accomodating and we are working together to try and resolve this. After dealing with numerous hosts, these are the most accessable suport people I have ever had the pleasure of dealing with so I am letting them try their best and hoping they will learn where the problem is. As I mentioned earlier, we were supposed to run some tests today but the server move to the test server didn't update in the DNS tables across the net so every time I try to run a script, it tries to head to the old server. It can take 6-12 hours for the DNS tables to update so we are going to shoot for midnight tonight to start a new round of testing. If we don't get up and running soon, I may just archive the old board and turn on a cheap php board for temporary use so we can at least be back on line. I will then start shopping around for a more knowledgeable UNIX host.... again. Problem is the good ones don't come cheap. I have a decent offer from a VPN but not sure I want to pay that much. I apologize for all the problems as of late. Finding a new home is not an easy process. Tons of providers out there but few that know what they are doing or are affordable to a free site. Good Luck, Lee

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