Re: Euphoria Sucks
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Oct 10, 2009
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From what I understand, the problem is this-
The web host that OpenEuphoria.org runs on sucks. Epicly.
Appearently the host does not have proper resource management.
Other users on the system are able to use up all resources, and the host limits the number of processes that the OpenEu site can have running to something far too low.
That is exactly right.
My recommendation would be to switch to another provider ASAP; perhaps a VPS-based one, as they tend to have much better resource management.
A good VPS would be something like $33/mo. I haven't looked at the price of a dedicated server, but surely we'd prefer a dedicated server over a virtual private one? (Granted, a VPS is much cheaper, I get mine for about 4 British pounds a month.)
But RobC will not give permission for it to be changed to a better one, therefore noone can do anything about it.
Yeah, if I understand correctly, this is the major barrier to switching to a new provider. After all, Rob is the one who is paying for the current host.
And to be fair to the host, the issues we are seeing now are due to the upgraded forum which talks to an SQL server and runs a process per connection. Previously, we had just static HTML pages, so our requirements are lower. It's the need to run so many processes with the new euforum that is really hurting us.
(On the other hand, it is the host's fault we have to do this. With SCGI, we'd only have a handful of processes running long-term serving multiple connections and using up much less resources. But the host won't allow us to use something more efficient like SCGI, we must use the current, more resource heavy, CGI system that leaves us vunerable to this.)
