Gallery issue

[Forumadmin]

I am investigating why the first page of my album is not accessible. Looks like the database may have suffered a corruption.

[Forumadmin]

That is now fixed. It was caused by an upload of a picture for which the Gallery 2 system could not create a thumbnail picture (giving a red cross where the thumbnail should be).

If this happens you may be able to delete the photo (if you have permission, which by default you do not, so mail me). You then need to reduce the size of the picture to upload. I do not know the limit on this as it seems to have changed; but under 200kB seems to be OK.

Of course, this is not satisfactory and I will be trying to fix it.

[Keith Andrews]

Im still having issues with time out, being logged out etc even trying to reply to this post
I run several instances of gallery, and phpbb2 etc on my server and havnt had any issues since 2004
These on going issues , to me all point to server overloaded, and also the speed at which it writes to the db, and maybe also combined with some poor connections/dialups etc.

My server is running on 8500 dl and only 850kb up ...things also used to work fine when I had only 128 up....if it is the host being overloaded they would have to be drastically overloaded...hence why I tend to think their actual servers are way overloaded.

[Forumadmin]

It certainly is the SQL server being overloaded which is on a separate server to the website but both should be connected by GB LAN.

ISP reports problems with some other SQL servers but currently not this one.

Maybe it is time to either kick them or move ISP!

[Keith Andrews]

Is this one of those free isp host servers?
They dont make a lot of money off those so any maint/upgrades tend to rather slack..ok for html but php/db .....

What sort of speed do u have with your isp? www.speedtest.net

Even with my 1st server, an old p3 98 machine 128kb up never had any problems, thu loaded slow sometimes when busy about 10 ppl on.

If u have a static ip, a spare machine in your office, postcast smtp server (free)...go for it...no worries messing with ftp and crap.

At 1st I didnt have a static ip, used no-ip regist the domains thru them..and its cheap... the only issues I did have was AOL and hotmail sometimes rejected regist/post/pm emails.
Once I got static ip happens 3 or 4 times a yr now.

I run an old p4 1,8 xp pro apachie, phpmyadmin...a couple times a yr I get a db corrupt (mainly because I forget to close phpmyadmin for a couple days.....2 mins run fix "dbs" and fine
Get spam bot, email bots and a lot of script kiddie attempts...used to occassionaly work, but have blocked a lot of E euro counties turkey, brasil, china korea and some others nps for a yr or so.
script attempts run a access.log search for =http

[Forumadmin]

No it is not free. Streamline.net has been voted one of the best. You can see the facilities it offers on their website.

If you think there is a better one, please advise. However, do not give me any advice about hosting at home or any other personal website.

It must not have any adverts, be fully backed up and resilient, offer unlimited disk space and volumes of traffic, support Linux and Windows with php, Mysql etc, offer telephone and support ticket support.

Dedicated machines are available; but I do not consider the club requires or can afford one.

[Keith Andrews]

Ok ..
We have had an Australasian gaming squad forthe last 12 yrs...
used asgard.net with no issues. php nuke email etcetc
been taken over by lcwsoft.com/

We all throw $au 10 each per yr , and about every 3rd yr there is enough left over from previous yrs to cover that yr.

offer unlimited disk space

why? jowett.org is not THAT big .....
If it take all the apache, mail server etc progs, plus dbs, log files, for all the web sites I host and they are far larger than jowett.org plus all my personal files its only 2.25 gig