Thank you Dan - Tile Advice

[Old Mod]

just want to say thank you to @Dan for working tirelessly over the past few days to get the forum up and running again!
Cheers Dan!!

 

[Qwerty]

I had withdrawl symptoms!!!

 

[jobdone]

Didn't realise how often I was on here. Even tried another site but there was not much going on. Glad it's back.

 

[Andy Allen]

What a relief........was surfing the plumbers forum out of desperation to find out what was wrong !!
Don't want to go back there again, I can asure you..

 

[Andy Allen]

Even the sparkies were on there....leaving a mess everywhere. ..

 

[jobdone]

I tired the plumbers forum. Really didn't like it. Needed my glasses not very mobile friendly

 

[Dan]

No worries lads, an update is here: Update: Recent Downtime (October 2016) - http://www.tilersforums.com/threads/update-recent-downtime-october-2016.81423/

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Had to take the wife shopping!
We even started to talk again - nearly ran out of things to say.

 

[Flintstone]

I got the shakes

 

[LM]

I didn't realise I had an addiction

 

[Dan]

Computers eh?!?! Amirite?!?!1 lol

 

[Bill]

May I take it that you are hosting this yourself Dan? Surely it can't be too expensive to have it professionally hosted?

 

[Dan]

May I take it that you are hosting this yourself Dan? Surely it can't be too expensive to have it professionally hosted?

Christ no! You couldn't get the connection speeds we need across the network on a domestic line. Upload speeds are shocking even if you have 150MB/sec download lol

We're hosted in France on Teir 3 backbone (faster than what we get in the UK) and use a server management firm based in Italy, who are experienced in small-business DDoS attack prevention and monitoring. As we've had a bit of that in the past. And we use a range of software and hardware based all around the globe to ensure we stay online.

Problem is, we have one SSD that we load content from, and no slave (it wouldnt work the way we are setup) so when that fails, it's end of posting!

We've managed to load from it, and have cut back on cron jobs, taken backups offsite, done a few other tricks.

Our hosting costs in the region of £450 per month per domain! Hence me shutting down the 22 or so forums that I hosted but didn't use and nobody visited much lol

We couldn't host on cheap hosting. We'd never be online.

 

[PaulSmith]

Nice result. Glad were all back on line

 

[Cstiling]

Thank god what would I read while x factor was on