nick205
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aaaaarrrrrgggghhhh - lcb website almost unusable
is it just me or is this site getting way too flakey?
Pretty constantly experiencing crashes and database errors and directive processing errors.
I know it's run out of the goodness of ChrisW's heart, but maybe it's time some money was put in the pot to pay for some
upgrades?
Just a thought.....
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Pdlewis
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| posted on 10/10/06 at 09:38 PM |
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Good Idea 
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JoelP
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| posted on 10/10/06 at 09:47 PM |
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it shouldnt be our pocket or the goodness of his heart, this site is easily busy enough to be funded out of advertising and traders. I think he lacks
time to optimise it tbh. Something does need doing though because the site is so slow now im thinking of giving up!
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indykid
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| posted on 10/10/06 at 10:00 PM |
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i think everyone with over 2000 posts should be made to pay for site maintenance!
i can see mad house would soon dry up if it were the case. and most of the bitching and griping.
i agree about the funding though joel
tom
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greggors84
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| posted on 10/10/06 at 10:38 PM |
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Maybe its time Chris gave one of the regulars who is good at the website stuff admin status so stuff like advertising could be maintained.
It looks like Chris still visits the site, but he hasnt posted in a few months and is probably very busy.
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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peterriley2
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| posted on 10/10/06 at 11:29 PM |
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if it was opened to advertising to kit car manufacturers/ parts manufacturers im sure it could get quite a bit of money- its the site where THE most
kit car enthusiasts regularly access- surely they should be asking chris to be able to advertise here???
Joel
If you dont respect yourself, dont expect respect from anyone else
Live your dreams, dont dream your life
Women only want you for one thing- everything!
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scutter
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 05:19 AM |
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If you wish to help Chris with the funding of the site, there is a donate button which links to paypal on the home page (scroll down it's
bottom left).
I believe Chris upgrades (new servers which when I last spoke to him were the main culprit) the site when funds allow.
I know some have helped already but newbies may now know
ATB Dan.
[Edited on 11/10/06 by scutter]
The less I worked, the more i liked it.
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James
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 07:47 AM |
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Have to say I've not noticed a problem! Seems to run fine for me and I'm on here pretty much all the 'working' day!
Cheers,
James
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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Catpuss
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 07:50 AM |
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There are also problems at times with the MySQL server limits being hit too.
I'm willing to help out if any maintenance needs doing. I've been working with PHP & MySQL databases for a good number of years now.
Getting sponsorship from companies would be worth it. My mate who runs zetecinside does quite well, though in his case as its for sprint and hill
climb he mostly gets big discounts on products.
Its all how you market to the companies. I could possibly help in working out an approach.
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marc n
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 07:51 AM |
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maybe some of the other traders who gain business from this site ( some are not even registered traders ) would like to contribute towards the cost of
web upgrades / maintainence etc in return for a small logo in the corner as we have, im happy to donate £150 to the cause ( as we do have our own
section ) and if other traders did the same then that should go a long way towards helping
it would be a shame for such a great site to go down hill
just my thoughts
best regards
marc
please email rather than u2u
direct workshop email ( manned 8am till 6pm )
www.mnrltd.co.uk enquireys to :-
chrismnrltd@btinternet.com
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ayoungman
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 09:31 AM |
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I only ever use this site during normal working hours and it has been 100% reliable for over 2 years. Clearly, the issues mentioned above must be
related to high volumn of demand in the evenings. To me, this would suggest a hardware issue of some sort. Some sort of cash investment would deal
with this issue.
"just like that !"
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Catpuss
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 10:00 AM |
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Yeah, the idea of the traders donating a set fee each year to host the respective forum would be a nice idea if they don't do it already.
Lets face it £150 is a nomimal sum that can be written off against tax, but in proportion would really help on hosting fees.
One limitation that is there is the 100 simultaeous connections limit on the MySQL daemon which causes pages to balk out. This may be a hosting
service implied limit. I can't rememeber off hand if this is a per database limit or per host service.
On top of that of course is that the server will be hosting loads of web sites.
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ch1ll1
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 11:28 AM |
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i find its night time thats the problem !
im willing to donate as its would be a shame to see this site go down ! (not that i think it will)
got a blue sierra to donate lol
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marc n
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 11:59 AM |
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ive only found it to be night time it quite often says something like too many connections ???
just made my £150 donation 
best regards
marc
please email rather than u2u
direct workshop email ( manned 8am till 6pm )
www.mnrltd.co.uk enquireys to :-
chrismnrltd@btinternet.com
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ChrisW
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 12:49 PM |
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Guys
If there is an issue, please let me know! I don't get on here as much as I'd like any more (although that has changed in the last couple
of weeks - I've even got my email going and cleared all the spam out of my inbox!) but every time I have logged on I've not seen a
problem. Admitttedly this has been during the daytime though. If we do need a hardware upgrade, I'll see what I can find.
For the technically minded amongst you, current load is...
quote:
[root@typhon ~]# uptime
13:46:50 up 212 days, 19:35, 2 users, load average: 0.39, 0.60, 0.55
Box is a dual P4 so I wouldn't be worried until the load gets above 1.5, but I must admit I've not checked during peak times for a
while.
Chris
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 12:54 PM |
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Mid-evening is the worst time...
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dilley
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 01:01 PM |
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some evenings I cant access the site all night, day time is fine.
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peterriley2
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 01:08 PM |
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yeah its in the evenings around 8-10 i reckon, everything slows down and you just get that too many connections thing coming up.
Joel
If you dont respect yourself, dont expect respect from anyone else
Live your dreams, dont dream your life
Women only want you for one thing- everything!
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mookaloid
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 01:30 PM |
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Well done Marc
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_luke
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 01:44 PM |
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Don't worry about buying new hardware...but a brain upgrade for ChrisW might be worthwhile
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ChrisW
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 02:01 PM |
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I should point out '_luke' is my business partner and found a few things to tweak on the server for me, and a few things I
'overlooked' that should have been configured again when I rebuilt the server earlier in the year. Hopefully performance will improve -
your feedback is welcome!
Chris
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James
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 02:16 PM |
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So when it breaks is 8-10pm.... exactly when you lot should be building your cars!
Get out in the garage you slackers!!!
Cheers,
Jim
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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scutter
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 02:32 PM |
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Says speedy builder James
ATB Dan.
The less I worked, the more i liked it.
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Fozzie
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| posted on 11/10/06 at 02:32 PM |
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Many thanks for that Chris! (and Luke.... )
Thanks for taking 'time-out' from your schedule for our quick chat earlier, much appreciated .......
Edited to say:- The clocks still an hour out, but...no worries, leave it a couple of weeks and it will be right again!
ATB Fozzie
[Edited on 11/10/06 by Fozzie]
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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ChrisW
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| posted on 12/10/06 at 12:06 AM |
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Ok - so I'm told (via MSN) that it was crap again tonight. Anyone care to give their comments? How was the site for you this evening? If you
don't tell me about the problems I can't fix them...
It's now 1am and everything seems fine!
Chris
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