Downtime tonight

[iago]

Well, tonight's the night. I'm finally swapping out my old dying server with some awesome new hardware I bought. The new server is going to be running Gentoo, the Web server and database server are going to be on the physical hardware (not a VM), so I'll be able to take proper advantage of the quad-core chip and the full memory, and it has the latest versions of Apache/PHP (this server's been slipping). It's going to be awesome, faster, and far easier to update!

I'm hoping to start this at about 8 or  9 CST, and it should take a couple hours.

[iago]

Ok, we're back. There's going to be a ton of broken stuff, anything that uses a database needs to be changed. But, I got the forum up! :)

Let me know if you notice a speed difference, I'm curious if this new hardware helps.

[Joe]

I see a spell check button. Eh?

It's curious that you're not isolating your web / mysql servers anymore.

EDIT -
The description of Paradise Lost displays incorrectly now.

[iago]

Yeah, I weighed the pros and cons, and decided to keep it local. I'm considering movies the MySQL server back to a VM now.

Interesting @ the shellcheck button. I guess the server has the required software to support spellcheck now.

For what it's worth, I'm running Gentoo now, not Slackware.

[iago]

So, I enabled some extra security for the forum. I've been using it for most of my sites, but it typically caused slowdown so I avoided using it for the forum. I think this server is fast enough that it won't make a difference, and it didn't seem to hurt my response times, so I'm going to leave it on.

Let me know if you notice any non-network slowness (best way is to check the "Page created in..." time at the bottom).

[Sidoh]

So, I enabled some extra security for the forum. I've been using it for most of my sites, but it typically caused slowdown so I avoided using it for the forum. I think this server is fast enough that it won't make a difference, and it didn't seem to hurt my response times, so I'm going to leave it on.

Let me know if you notice any non-network slowness (best way is to check the "Page created in..." time at the bottom).

what'd you do? >: (

PS: speed is fine.  better than it usually is.

You totally fucked up my signature, though.  THANKS A LOT!

[Blaze]

You totally fucked up my signature, though.  THANKS A LOT!

YEAH, YOU JERK!

[deadly7]

I used this important event to re-add my old avatar.

[iago]

what'd you do? >: (

In terms of security features, I enabled suPHP. It basically runs PHP through CGI, and runs the scripts as the other rather than as the apache user. So if somebody compromises one site, they don't automatically get access to others.

You totally fucked up my signature, though.  THANKS A LOT!

Hmm, that's interesting considering I didn't modify SMF at all. It must be Apache or MySQL doing something different. Is that a unicode/utf8 problem?

[Blaze]

what'd you do? >: (

In terms of security features, I enabled suPHP. It basically runs PHP through CGI, and runs the scripts as the other rather than as the apache user. So if somebody compromises one site, they don't automatically get access to others.

You totally fucked up my signature, though.  THANKS A LOT!

Hmm, that's interesting considering I didn't modify SMF at all. It must be Apache or MySQL doing something different. Is that a unicode/utf8 problem?

Are you using the same character set as before?  That's my guess.

[Sidoh]

what'd you do? >: (

In terms of security features, I enabled suPHP. It basically runs PHP through CGI, and runs the scripts as the other rather than as the apache user. So if somebody compromises one site, they don't automatically get access to others.

Ah, yeah.  That's kind of what I figured.  The host I used to be with did that, and it seemed to cause all sorts of performance issues.  Of course, you're not hosting dozens of people on your box, so I'm sure it doesn't matter.  Just a story. :)

You totally fucked up my signature, though.  THANKS A LOT!

Hmm, that's interesting considering I didn't modify SMF at all. It must be Apache or MySQL doing something different. Is that a unicode/utf8 problem?

Yeah -- it's almost definitely an encoding problem.  I'd imagine that it was some sort of unicode.

[iago]

what'd you do? >: (

In terms of security features, I enabled suPHP. It basically runs PHP through CGI, and runs the scripts as the other rather than as the apache user. So if somebody compromises one site, they don't automatically get access to others.

Ah, yeah.  That's kind of what I figured.  The host I used to be with did that, and it seemed to cause all sorts of performance issues.  Of course, you're not hosting dozens of people on your box, so I'm sure it doesn't matter.  Just a story. :)

When I enabled it before, it caused issues on the higher traffic sites, so I only enabled it on the smaller ones. This time, I enabled it on everything except skullsecurity.org, because that's the one that gets Slashdotted on occasion. :)

It is significantly worse than straight php, though, because everything goes through cgi which is ass slow.

You totally fucked up my signature, though.  THANKS A LOT!

Hmm, that's interesting considering I didn't modify SMF at all. It must be Apache or MySQL doing something different. Is that a unicode/utf8 problem?

Yeah -- it's almost definitely an encoding problem.  I'd imagine that it was some sort of unicode.

Yeah, dunno. If you edit the signature, can you put the characters back?

I don't know if it's Apache, MySQL, the OS, SMF, or something else breaking it, and I'm not sure how I'd troubleshoot that.

[Sidoh]

Haha, I don't care man.  I had to search pretty hard for something to bitch about.

grats on the new hardware :)

[iago]

Haha, I don't care man.  I had to search pretty hard for something to bitch about.

It's still gonna bug me. :P

grats on the new hardware :)

Thanks! :)

[Sidoh]

Weird... it's like you don't support Unicode anymore or something!  I re-entered both my title and Alfr?d R?nyi (supposed to appear this way: http://grab.by/6RWV), and neither are showing up correctly.  Non-ASCII characters are replaced with '?'.