hosting

The elections for the BoD 2008 are underway (vote now, if you're a current member). Like last year, I have transfered control over the 'admin' user over to our treasurer, who is not running for a position in the Board of Directors. (Major) maintenance will have to wait two weeks, until the elections are over.

Since more than a year ago, I've been meaning to move the IVRPA site over to another host. Today it finally happened. At our old host, we had MySQL issues, we could not host mailinglists, and I was generally worried about the security of the server we were on.

Since around noon GMT, we're on Bluehost.com. Sofar things are looking good over here. Less cruft, and better security all round. Let's hope the performance matches what I've seen sofar.

We've been having some issues with our hosting. Some of you might have been seeing red error messages instead of content from time to time. This is due to issues at our host, CIHost.

We're on a shared server. Whenever someone else on our server uploads one or more very large files, the /tmp partition fills up. This means that other file uploads will fail, but far more importantly, MySQL will fail doing even the simplest of SELECT statements with an 'error 28'. Unfortunately, this seems to happen quite often. Looking through the logs of the site, I have traced back 4 incidents: