Announcing New V-Features: Rule V-Compliant Servers
Anyone who has happened by Velominati this past week will know our site has been in a serious breach of Rule #5; we had a big uptick in traffic, and the site made like Van Summeren’s back tire. During this time, I’ve done everything I could think of from indiscriminately screaming at the computer screen, wall, or tech support to flinging wild Hail-Mary code updates against the wall in the hopes of a miracle fix. Sometimes it seemed a fix repaired the issue, when in reality it was just a lul in traffic and the site went right back to sucking again a few minutes later.
As a diagnosed Obsessive-Compulsive, let me tell you that this has not been a good stretch; when an inanimate object doesn’t do my bidding, my insides twist into a palpable rage. On the plus side, it forced me to make long-overdue site optimizations in order to squeegee every bit of performance out of these pages. I upgraded the database and went to sleep with the update scheduled to go live at midnight only to wake from dreams where I checked the site to find the same lackluster performance. Unable to sleep, I climbed out of bed only to find the same lackluster performance.
Finally, I had to face the fact that we’ve spent too long too near our server’s capacity. I chose the Red Pill and upgraded to a high-power server that (hopefully) can handle the load with ease. While I’ve certainly noticed some weirdness (and please let us know anything you notice yourself), I’ve been thrilled with the site’s performance so far, though our weekend traffic is always about half that of week days. Be that as it may, I’ve been having a blast today making some tweaks and just clicking on all the pages and basking in how quickly they come up.
A big thanks to everyone for their patience while we dealt with the slowness, to my fellow Keepers for keeping spirits up, and thanks to the Community for sticking around and posting despite the interminable waits for the pages to respond. We should be in good shape for the coming season. Cheers.
Frikkin HUGE improvement!!!
Nice work!
No worries! It has always been worth the wait!
Looks like the server had a Rainbow Turd moment?
Ok I had a brainwave last night and now I’d like to share it.
What about a coloured border around our cogs for past VSP results. The winner of the TdF could have a yellow border kind of like the former World Champions have the rainbow on their sleeves. If not that then the VSP winner could have a multi coloured border.
Just throwing it out there, don’t know how much programming it would take, and I’ll never have it unless by complete fluke.
OK, I don’t know where else to post this, so here it is…
I have seen in some previous posts, which I cannot for the life of me find again *&%@! a description of how to change my thingy (avatar) to something a little more…in my own idiom.
So for those that have typed this out, please forward me to the correct department or tell me how to do it.
Pretty please with EPO on top?
@Dan_R
I just saw that post, but I can’t remember what it is off the top of my head. I do know that you need to go to Gravatar. I’ll keep searching the archives and see if I can find the post.
@Dan_R
Quoting Frank here “Hey mate – to make that very cool image your thumbnail, just head over to gravatar.com, sign up under your email address that you use to post at Velominati (its free) and upload the picture. Easy as pie!”
@Dan_R
OK, I think I found it:
@Vin’cenza
…..aaaaaand, you’re welcome.
@Vin’cenza
Good find, mate!
@Flying Crowbar
grabbed Frank’s email. Nonetheless !!
cheers gents. I’ll give it a try once thy velominis are in bed
And it is finally done. Thanks guys!