Nobody can make account last few days. It says: "Maximum registrations per day reached, please wait 24 hours."
Bert says: "I looked. Board owner is upgrading the server hardware. This has nothing to do with you at all. Relax and try again
tommorow, I'm not involved, the hardware is half way across USA from me. So I don't know when they are done, but can't be too long."ELRIC - 3-6-2018 at 06:21
I think the server this site is on is loaded too heavily or something, because they seem to reboot the machine far too often. When that happens, the
forum won't work though the document collections will, because it takes longer for the database to restart than for the webserver.
Back in 2006.
Just out of curiousity, when you get that message, could you check if you CAN access the sciencemadness.org library, or any of the downloadable
documents on the site you might have a link to saved?aga - 3-6-2018 at 10:44
Quote:
1. Attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly and fairly that your target says: “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it
that way.”
I can't access SM either. It's totally unavailable to me as well.
Maybe one day it will let me log in, if i'm a really lucky bunny.
No idea if anyone will ever get this message i posted on SM seeing as i cannot login at all, to post this message on SM.Polverone - 3-6-2018 at 10:49
Hi. Yesterday the site was down a couple of times. I was running an offline upgrade to increase the disk space available for hosting the site and then
making a forum database backup. It takes a while to dump the ~17 GB that the forum now occupies.aga - 3-6-2018 at 11:23
The site was down for hardly any time at all - nice job.
The message "offline for hardware upgrade" was a really nice touch.G-Coupled - 3-6-2018 at 11:33
Hi. Yesterday the site was down a couple of times. I was running an offline upgrade to increase the disk space available for hosting the site and then
making a forum database backup. It takes a while to dump the ~17 GB that the forum now occupies.
17GB for a load of mainly text (very compressible), some usually pretty small images and no audio/video I'm aware of? That's quite surprising IMO -
what's most of the space taken up by, do you know? streety - 3-6-2018 at 11:55
From looking at the backup from 2016 the database size was almost entirely due to the attachments.
These were the main tables:
Name Rows Space
xmb_attachments 36,251 8.7 GiB
xmb_members 84,233 18.5 MiB
xmb_posts 346,433 383.2 MiB
xmb_threads 25,551 4.1 MiB
xmb_u2u ? Not included in backup for obvious reasons but probably also a reasonable size.
Polverone would be able to give more recent numbers Polverone - 3-6-2018 at 12:51
Attachments are responsible for most of the size. The 17 GB number is actually with compression -- it's what I need to download to
make new forum backup images. Uncompressed, the DB dump is 21 GB. Attachments don't compress very well.DoctorPhilosophy - 3-6-2018 at 13:40
This not solved yet: Error Maximum registrations per day reached, please wait 24 hours.
I checked forum settings. Someone had limited registrations per day. It is now unlimited again. It might have been a temporary measure to deal with
spammers that was left on longer than intended.
