Welcome to the new RFF Servers!!

[CameraQuest]

12/13/2011

We are finally up on the new RFF servers and hosting service. We transferred from one server with RAID backup to 4 servers with a load balancer. In the future if a server goes down, it should be replaced within an hour -- not EIGHT f'n days like the old hosting service!

Over 95,000 threads, a million and a half posts, 288,000 gallery images, and 53,000 attachments were transferred to the new servers.

Did you notice the random gallery is back on the home page?

That is only one of the many updates which we are able to contemplate now.

Through the terrible hosting situation over Thanksgiving and the migration to the new servers, I want to thank Jorge Torralba, RFF's founder and tech guy, for all his hard work! Many Thanks!

Stephen

[hipsterdufus]

Rock on! Pretty transparent move from what I can tell so far... Thanks for all the hard work.

[f16sunshine]

Random Images from gallery!! YES!

[scottwallick]

Nice. How about looking in to getting Tapatalk/Forum Runner back up and running?

[divewizard]

Thank you for your hard work to make this site enjoyable for us all.

[MP Guy]

Still working on a few things. But this should help.

[digitalintrigue]

seems pretty snappy. :)

[hipsterdufus]

Response time has definitely improved on my end... Very cool.

[umcelinho]

rock on, rff! :)

[sevres_babylone]

As William Bell (and the Byrds) sang: You don't miss your water till your well runs dry.

Hope those who worked so hard to solve the problems can relax over the holidays.

[semordnilap]

Great great great! And random images... even greater! I really missed it a lot.

[batterytypehah!]

Very snappy, what an improvement! Thanks!

[MP Guy]

Currently active photographers: 732 (236 members and 496 guests)

[leica M2 fan]

RFF is back and we've got it! Thanks to Stephen and Jorge for the tremendously hard work and all the hours involved in this. We all appreciate it, thanks guys.

[buzzardkid]

RFF is back and we've got it! Thanks to Stephen and Jorge for the tremendously hard work and all the hours involved in this. We all appreciate it, thanks guys.


... and so say we all!

[leica M2 fan]

Oh and BTW my computer is now so fast here it might just blow it's self up!

[brainwood]

Nicely done move and much better performance from the site

[buzzardkid]

^^ Same here! Came back to this thread to comment on it!


I gonna need a slower Mac. Anyone?

:p

[luiman]

Thank you for the great work!

[jippiejee]

Good to know the best photography forum on the web has an even better base now... thnx!

[pagpow]

Whoa!!! came back, forgot we were down and found this.
Tante grazie a tutti e specialmente a Stephen and Jorge.
What a gift.

Giorgio

[MP Guy]

Currently active photographers: 1137 (365 members and 772 guests)

[rover]

Looking good!!!

Very exciting times.

[dave lackey]

Everything is looking good and working rather well! Congratulations and thanks!

[jan normandale]

@Cameraquest/Stephen... thanks for your own commitment to making RFF a better experience. Thanks to all the backroom operations people who executed it. It seemed "dark days" when things were down but I knew ... eventually.

Congrats!

[---f]

Congrats on the transition and thanks for not banning me!

[MP Guy]

Currently active photographers: 1432 (443 members and 989 guests)

[rover]

The most people online at RFF ever!

[Bingley]

Many thanks for the server fix! And it's great to see the random pix from the Gallery again!

[newspaperguy]

Thank you Santa Stephen... and all the Elves that helped. (Sorry Jorge.)

What a wonderful Christmas present!

Rick

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[helenhill]

Woohoooo... Santa was very GOOD
To US This Year

Thank You & to a Rock'n 2012 Here at RFf !!

[zauhar]

You're the men! Thanks!

Randy

[MP Guy]

Currently active photographers: 1700 (523 members and 1177 guests)

[kdemas]

The performance seems MUCH better at my end! Thanks for the efforts everyone!

Kent

ps- Random pic gallery being back is a very good thing.

[digitalintrigue]

Email notifications...amazing.

[Rafael]

It's great to see the site running so well and especially to see the random photo gallery back on the front page. Thanks to Stephen and Jorge and whoever else is responsible for these improvements.

[seakayaker1]

Thank you Stephen and Jorge!

Enjoy the RFF and appreciate your sponsorship of the site and your efforts to keep it running!

[SciAggie]

Thanks for all the hard work getting us back better than ever. Having the random gallery images back is like getting a Christmas present early.

[isoterica]

Great improvement and the front page images are nice to see! Thanks!

[Chris101]

Wow - I've never seen the site so fast.

Thanks!

[f6andBthere]

Me-thinks that exrtraordinary amount of photographers on line currently is a software glitch. When you click on many of those members listed on the forums page they come up as offline.

[segedi]

Now... one last wish... Tapatalk support!

[CameraQuest]

Now... one last wish... Tapatalk support!

Tapatalk has problems, it won't be back here.

We will try Forum Runner.

Stephen

[paulfish4570]

huzzah! huzzah!

[huntjump]

Site is running stellar! I had issues with bulk image upload, I was finally able to upload one single image. Not sure if it is just me though.

[sonofdanang]

Stephen,

I did indeed notice the return of the photo gallery. Well done all around.

Best,

S

[jasonrutter]

The speed of the site is amazing. Thanks guys. Your hard work is much appreciated.

[maddoc]

The site is really fast now, might need to upgrade my notebook but that conflicts with buying more gear ... :D

Thanks for bringing the site up to this level and looking forward using Forum Runner !! :)

[Vincent.G]

Yes, everything is fast and smooth now. :)

[peter_n]

Many thanks, Stephen and Jorge! :)

[Vincent.G]

Many thanks, Stephen and Jorge! :)

And I got an email notification of your post! This is great! :)

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

@Cameraquest/Stephen... thanks for your own commitment to making RFF a better experience. Thanks to all the backroom operations people who executed it. It seemed "dark days" when things were down but I knew ... eventually.

Congrats!
Ditto. Well done guys, and thanks!
Regards,
Brett

[Vics]

Bravo! Jorge and Stephen! "Did you notice the random gallery is back on the home page?" You bet I did! I thought all this time it was something I had done wrong!
Great work. I know it was worse for you than for us! Thanks.
VS

[ironhorse]

Thanks for your hard work. Very happy to see the gallery finally back on the home page.

[hteasley]

Yes, thanks for all the hard work getting the site into good shape again; better shape, even. I hadn't realized how much I had missed the random gallery.

[froyd]

Thanks for the hard work and investment in this community.

[raid]

Many thanks for the server fix! And it's great to see the random pix from the Gallery again!

I am unable to uplad pics.

[hteasley]

I am unable to uplad pics.

I had some struggles, too: it all seemed to go through, but I'd be dumped to a text page that was a url ending in ".mpk" or something. But the images were in my queue, so resubmitting succeeded. But there is something wrong there; at least, there is for me, as well.

[rxmd]

Nice! Very good job. Thank you.

[MP Guy]

upload issue resolved.

[raid]

I just uploaded five images to the gallery. It works after all.

[bwcolor]

Wow, RFF is really fast... good job...

[GaryLH]

Thanks Stephen for putting RFF on such as great setup. The new hosting server setup and load balancer rocks. Compare to the best of times in the past the speed of page changes are just great :)

Thanks to Jorge for all his hard work making all the migrations...

Gary

[Bill58]

A huge thanks!!!!!!

[ray*j*gun]

Great response time and the resolution even seems better! Thank you for the hard work.......... I missed the site!

[emilsand]

Much, much faster from here! Great!!

[Gid]

Thanks for all the effort. Much appreciated. Does seem quite a bit more responsive - great job.

[sevo]

Not that we have an excess of server performance, couldn't the delay of 30s between searches now be reduced to something a bit more user friendly? Combined with the rather limited search function (which often needs some trial and error to find a useful search phrase that does not deliver too much or to few findings) it is really crippling to have half a minute wait between each attempt.

[Griffin]

Thank you Stephen,

Now you can devote yourself fully to writing the GXR module review :D

[batterytypehah!]

My login seems to time out even sooner than before, though. Anybody else have this problem?

[c.poulton]

Nice. How about looking in to getting Tapatalk/Forum Runner back up and running?

:) yes, that would be great for me too...

[sevo]

My login seems to time out even sooner than before, though. Anybody else have this problem?

The cookies RFF sets expire either after the session closes, or after one year. "Sooner" probably does not relate to the latter. You should look into whether your browser for some reason fails to delete expired cookies (e.g. due to permission issues or script blocking) or whether your browser kills/restarts your session without you logging off. I've seen the latter happen due to runaway "check for site updates" plugins or during parallel use with different browsers.

[raid]

Our home away from home is back. Thanks.

[rover]

My login seems to time out even sooner than before, though. Anybody else have this problem?

Try clearing your cache. I am far from a tech guy, but I believe this may solve your problem.

[MP Guy]

Cookies and sessions time outs will be addressed soon. The problem is related to the load balance. In a nutshell, the site thinks everyone is coming from the same place (load balancer). I need to modify some code for this. In the meantime if you get locked out it will clear every 5 minutes.

[Mackinaw]

Very fast! Very nice!

Jim B.

[Rob-F]

Working fast and perfectly for me at this time! Thanks for all the good work, everyone!

[tedwhite]

Just tried a)classifieds and b)gallery and couldn't access either one. Hope it's just temporary.

[MP Guy]

The cookie / session time out should be resolved along with the number of users on line.

[MP Guy]

Just tried a)classifieds and b)gallery and couldn't access either one. Hope it's just temporary.

I just uploaded images without any issue and classifieds seem to be working. Remember the gallery software is not the best. if your image is not within the allowed limits, you dont get any indication of the problem and it just behaves as if it was uploaded and you are left clueless.

The software I have created handles this in a better way and we may use it in the future.

[rbiemer]

Thank you very much, gentlemen.
Your work is much appreciated.
Rob

[barnwulf]

Absolutely wonderful to be back here. Thank you for all the work to get this going again. I still am having some trouble uploading some images. Any ideas anyone? Jim

EDIT: OK, everything working now. First few didn't upload for some reason. Jim

[batterytypehah!]

The cookie / session time out should be resolved along with the number of users on line.

I believe it is, thanks!

[batterytypehah!]

In case you forgot, or joined RFF while those random gallery pictures weren't showing: This being a photography forum, and a darn good one at that, some gallery submissions may be inappropriate for a work or all-ages environment. There's a checkbox for "mature" content users are supposed to mark as they upload such pictures, but in practice that doesn't happen and as a result, the random gallery can throw something unexpected on your screen, without you actively entering the galleries or a photo thread.

This is not at all an issue for me personally, but occasionally other members have complained.

[rudolf]

I like
;)

[rpsawin]

Great job guys!

Best regards,

Bob

[Moriturii]

Wonderful news. RFF for me is a never ending well of information to keep on learning stuff from other people.

[Photon42]

Thanks a lot for your effort, Stephen. Excellent news indeed. I think I should order a lens from you :D

[jwcat]

I was locked into the Cameraquest/RFF page and did not know RFF was back up till I checked the group on Flickr. Good to be able to read again.

[robert blu]

I thank all the ones who work to keep this place running. Geazie!
robert

[colinlane]

Viva la new server(s)!

[marcr1230]

love the return of the random images!

[rickp]

hello

i wanted to attach a photo (right size and kb) to a post this afternoon. the attachment was not accepted, and i was redirected to my attachment listing, where i was 'using' 4.9mb of space for 60ish attachments.

whether or not this is related to new servers (and space), i would like to know if we should a) keep the attachment mb under a certain limit? and b) should we, as well-behaved forum members, review and clean out our attachments from time to time??

thanks

rick

[Photon42]

hello

i wanted to attach a photo (right size and kb) to a post this afternoon. the attachment was not accepted, and i was redirected to my attachment listing, where i was 'using' 4.9mb of space for 60ish attachments.

whether or not this is related to new servers (and space), i would like to know if we should a) keep the attachment mb under a certain limit? and b) should we, as well-behaved forum members, review and clean out our attachments from time to time??

thanks

rick

I experienced the same problem, when I wanted to upload a 50k image. The message I got was that my quota on uploads has been exceeded. After I've deleted basically everything I've ever uploaded (which wasn't much, really), the message still persists :bang:

Is this a bug or a feature?

Ivo

[Bill Snell]

Same problem here re attachments. Tried to post a reply to a query regarding 1938 leicas yesterday and after deleting all previous attachments a message still tells me that I exceeded my quota by the size of the attachment. Quota now appears to be NIL and the few attachments I did have are gone.

[CameraQuest]

hello

i wanted to attach a photo (right size and kb) to a post this afternoon. the attachment was not accepted, and i was redirected to my attachment listing, where i was 'using' 4.9mb of space for 60ish attachments.

whether or not this is related to new servers (and space), i would like to know if we should a) keep the attachment mb under a certain limit? and b) should we, as well-behaved forum members, review and clean out our attachments from time to time??

thanks

rick

some adjustments have been made.
try uploading now.
attachment limit is 200kb file size.

Stephen

[Bill Snell]

Tried again with the 156k file with no success. Still "156k over quota" with no attachments stored! Time to give up?

[ChrisN]

I'm still getting this,

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/RFF_-attachments_issue.jpg

[CameraQuest]

Tried again with the 156k file with no success. Still "156k over quota" with no attachments stored! Time to give up?

I don't get why some people are having no problems with attachments,
and others are.

Stephen

[bbrovold]

Yes, getting the same message when trying to post an image. Now I have deleted all previous and can not post a simple 65kb image.
???

[CameraQuest]

RFF does not work well with Internet Explorer 9 for some reason.

Are any of you having problems with uploading attachments using that browser?

I suggest Firefox or Chrome instead.

Stephen

[Cyriljay]

Thank you all for the hard work!!:D