I guess you're human after all!
You take that back!!! LOL
I may bitch and moan but at least with IHUB the powers that be are reachable.
With other websites it's like spitting in the wind.
I think it's as a friend was telling me yesterday. We're unique in that all the "powers that be" on our sites are hard-core message-board guys. It's our (the sites') biggest strength. Unfortunately, though we're far from technically incompetent, we're not the most exceptional geeks around. Though in my case, having worked for years as a consultant, I take this mis-step particularly personally, but don't worry. I won't take it out on you and I haven't even been kicking the dogs. Any more than usual. <g>
I just have to hunker down and fix it. And I'm confident I will. Anytime the equipment and their workload back me into a corner, I've ALWAYS found some more performance in the couch cushions. Which is why we've got a Load Balancer sitting in the office that we bought about 2 years ago when I thought it and multiple webservers were our only solution, only to find a ton of wasted performance to free up while waiting for the LB to arrive.
The LB and multiple webservers aren't even a "potential" solution right now. The webserver, while working hard, is not the bottleneck. It's the database server. And I'm working on getting it fixed.
And I'm going to be breaking a huge rule of mine. I'm so drained at night lately that I'm getting zero programming/tweaking done at night, so I'm going to be making changes to important routines and implementing them mid-day.
But with the new way I publish code, if it's discovered that I've broken something, a rollback is easy. Can roll-back up to the 10 most recent versions of any program.
Edit: That Submit took a little while, but didn't time out. Histograms are going way up. They're really displaying an unnatural pattern that makes me inclined to look closely at the log files before I do anything else.
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