But maybe there really is snow...

Windows sucks... UNIX forever!!!

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Originally posted by PeterK:
Who's on an NT server? Ehh, response is good for me, although, yes, Kyp is right. We're running a pretty big marketing campagin with the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Lots lots lots more web traffic than normal, but the server is barely using 1/10th of its power at this point.

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Well, okay... big deal you're running SLOWLARIS... it's just odd seeing ASP's running off of UNIX... better to use PERL, JSP or better yet.. PHP.

And another thing... you may want to talk to your HSX folks.. because their links are set up wrong.. you can click till your hearts content (on different browsers) but it won't take you anywhere... just drops you off at akamai!

WinNT forever

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--Kyp
Writer/Editor

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Well, *I* for one am PROFOUNDLY offended and disturbed! I will never return to this site again! And as further revenge, I will never listen to another single score CD EVER! In fact, I will probably have to cut out watching movies too, since there's so much damn music in them! Of course, if I can find some quack to render me surgically deaf, this will be an irrelevancy!

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but I wonder if Dubya even knows how to turn on a computer...

Site still dragging....food running out...miss my dog...natives unfriendly here...don't know how much longer I can hold out.....

NP:Papillon(Goldsmith)...wish I had Silvestri's CAST AWAY....

It really, at this time, may or may not come down to what technology he's using, but it's still slow. I carry about as much load on my own server without a problem, and have worked on sites with much less in the way of computing power and served a greater load. I dunno if Peter has a dedicated server, but if not, he should look into getting one. If it is a dedicated server... I would suggest doing a technology assesment to see if it's really meeting the need.

(oh, and the comments about languages... to keep from getting into a true CS discussion... admit it... you're running PERL for the message board... 'nuff said)

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A most generous offer, Mr. Bryant, but I cannot formally be aware of it, as I no longer appear here.

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but I wonder if Dubya even knows how to turn on a computer...

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David, the hardware infrastructure for MovieMusic is quite excellent, built by CalTech guys. Thanks for your expert advice, though. Not all movie soundtrack webmasters look for free disk space from the latest free-hosting.com, some need to invest heavily in their systems. I dare say we compare what's behind this site and soundtrack.net! But hey, it's whatever gets the job done for the BUSINESS you are in; MovieMusic's business just happens to be vastly different from every other soundtrack website.

The comments about the languages? Those were a jibe, so there is no need to talk about the jibe. Jibes are jests in fun. But, if you really want to know what I think, sure, perl is a great language. As you've noted, it's used here. If it sucked, it wouldn't be used here.

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Originally posted by PeterK:
I've been searching high and low to find out what might be causing the slowness, and it happens to be a problem with the routers at the ISP. There is nothing wrong with the servers themselves. Unfortunately, though, the guy who works on the routers is on a small vacation at this point and doesn't care about whining soundtrack fans!

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Well, usually, if you're using this as a livelyhood.... this is grounds for a breach of contract with your service provider... two days in a row is a serious condition.. vacation or not. But I'll put that one down for a value judgement... If eBay... or lets say something smaller (but comparable in content)... um say, The Drudge Report would have users and loyalty dropping like flies by now...

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David, the hardware infrastructure for MovieMusic is quite excellent, built by CalTech guys.

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What, janitors from CalTech? c'mon... a pedigree doesn't mean they know how to do anything... I've met a bunch of real duds from prestigous schools... hell, look at what we've recently been given as a President.. and he supposedly went to Harvard!

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Thanks for your expert advice, though. Not all movie soundtrack webmasters look for free disk space from the latest free-hosting.com, some need to invest heavily in their systems. I dare say we compare what's behind this site and soundtrack.net! But hey, it's whatever gets the job done for the BUSINESS you are in; MovieMusic's business just happens to be vastly different from every other soundtrack website.

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Okay Peter... I had to get up from my desk and walk around a bit after this comment... more or less there were some choice words I'd like to expouse right now, but since this is a kid-themed site, I'd opt to keep more civil.

In short, if you want the details, I'd be more than willing to list 'em.. but I'll wait for a real request. Anyhow, all the important info is already listed on a page on our website... so it's no use bothering to repeat it here. However, I'm a professional systems engineer, and I know how to do things like capacity planning, disaster receovery, and more importantly... how to pick good hosting and network providers.

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The comments about the languages? Those were a jibe, so there is no need to talk about the jibe. Jibes are jests in fun. But, if you really want to know what I think, sure, perl is a great language. As you've noted, it's used here. If it sucked, it wouldn't be used here.

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Yes, they were jibes, and I wasn't getting caustic about it. I just didn't appreciate your automatic nay-saying and labelling of, what for a lot of folks, are useful web technologies. So, I'll leave it there.. or we can start a new thread if anyone is interested... but then again.. isn't this supposed to be a film music site? It seems we've been forced to start a tech-support group for the site...

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Here's to hoping the snow melts so my ISP guy can come back sooner!

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I apologize for dropping the CalTech name on you, yes. That wasn't needed. But, I will say these guys have been on main frames and Unix computers before SQL was even invented. Is that better?

I dared use to compare MovieMusic servers to soundtracknet servers because we'd probably find we have very similar setups behind the scenes! I just took a look at what's listed on your site, and sure, it's very similar!

Like I said, jibes are jibes. You should find no reason to appreciate or not appreciate a jibe. That's why it's a jibe. It's meant in fun.

I've just tried a few more servers at your ISP on the same network block.. and a few with a higher traffic rating than you.. and well... they came back fast and fine...

If it WAS the router... I would have had the same performance on their site as we do yours... but then again... you don't need a degree from CalTech for that... just some basic knowledge of how webservers and networks work...

...EOM.. that is all...

Cheers! (Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah...and a happy new year.. from away OR in front of your computers... why does Peter discourage that?!)

"The Doctor is Out!"

TTYL y'all!

A good reason, especially on an insecure Solaris machine (they come out of the box that way) has identd turned on (a reverse look-up machine identity daemon) which, when used on improperly configured versions of Apache and in DNS, use identd to lookup the client computer and the server's address to begin communication. If no REVERSE DNS (address to machine mapping) set up, which is the case for moviemusic.com, a connection will take signifigantly long to set up, and thus wait for a connection timeout before proceeding to just connect and forget about trying to verify the connection. This is more of a pain if you happen to use SSH, or any secure protocol that has any level of basic authentication.

There are several things you can do to fix this, and possibly fix ONE of your problems. First, disable identd and remove the "DNSLookups" flag (basically set it to "NO"). Two, get your ISP to put proper REVERSE IP information in their DNS servers. Or, if you like, fake it by runnign your own DNS server, and point your resolv.conf (or similar file) to list your local DNS server first and then list your ISP's servers second, third, fourth... etc.

Any network engineer should know how to do this.. it's the reason they paid the big bucks...even tho I haven't seen it on my end!

and in the words of General Patton.. "That is all!"

Sincerely,

David

To stay on topic here, the site's slowness will be gone soon. Thanks for your patience everyone, and remember, always stick to engineers who get paid the big bucks. Don't listen to that webjedi guy, he doesn't know what he's talkin' about!

Tschuss!

[However, your network perfomance has improved... congrats on getting your ISP to do something]

Don't be mean to Peter! After all, he put a smiley face, which we all know means he can say belittling things under a sheild of immunity.

NP: SANDAKAN 8 (from "The World of Akira Ifukube)