If Anyone is interested [site/server specs]

Amitz

I am sure that @AnthonySmith will keep us informed...
Many thanks in advance, Ant!

uptime

The day-to-day stats have been interesting to observe (I'm curious about weekends vs weekdays). Also even the daily ebb and flow of people checking in from different time zones.

(not suggesting that the stats keep getting posted daily, just would hope that some snapshots of activity over time might get saved somewhere for future reference)

InceptionHosting

Will update on Friday,

Razza

Still running Apache behind Nginx? Just wondering how are running PHP mod_PHP or PHP-FPM .

k082mx

@Razza in a previous post @AnthonySmith mentioned it is PHP-FPM

sonic

LES is growing rapidly!

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@Razza said:
Still running Apache behind Nginx? Just wondering how are running PHP mod_PHP or PHP-FPM .

Yes, and FPM

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ITS FRIDAY!

Vanilla stats from yesterday:

Google stats by unique user:

Google stats by device:

I will do a bigger update like this each Friday until the end of the year.

tgl

soon we will have 300 users, not the movie

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@tgl said:
soon we will have 300 users, not the movie

300th user gets a sparta tag?

tgl

@AnthonySmith that could be a good idea yes, to add "Spartan" to his user tags

tgl

thinking about it though it should be 301, since its Leonidas (you) and the 300 spartans

Amitz

Not so sure about that whole "Sparta" thing...

InceptionHosting

Happy stats Friday. (remember vanilla stats are 24 hours behind)

Server: 1 core | 512MB Ram | 5GB Disk

Vanilla:

Google:

SpeedBus

Forum runs quite smooth, any idea how many requests/sec PHP is processing ?

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SpeedBus said: Forum runs quite smooth, any idea how many requests/sec PHP is processing ?

I don't, the stats extension is not installed or configured, if google analytics is to be believed though its around 15 p/sec

SpeedBus

@AnthonySmith said:

SpeedBus said: Forum runs quite smooth, any idea how many requests/sec PHP is processing ?

I don't, the stats extension is not installed or configured, if google analytics is to be believed though its around 15 p/sec

Hmm, I think (on Ubuntu) service php7.3-fpm status should give you this information

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SpeedBus said: service php7.3-fpm status

I think you mean systemctl status php-blah

yeah that is at that exact point in time though it does not give you an average so it is fairly useless.

SpeedBus

@AnthonySmith said:

SpeedBus said: service php7.3-fpm status

I think you mean systemctl status php-blah

Yup correct, thats the command in mind

yeah that is at that exact point in time though it does not give you an average so it is fairly useless.

Ahh I see, 15p/sec (from Google Analytics) is pretty neat too esp with 1 CPU core

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@SpeedBus said:

@AnthonySmith said:

SpeedBus said: service php7.3-fpm status

I think you mean systemctl status php-blah

Yup correct, thats the command in mind

yeah that is at that exact point in time though it does not give you an average so it is fairly useless.

Ahh I see, 15p/sec (from Google Analytics) is pretty neat too esp with 1 CPU core

Turns out google is not right at all.

~$ for i in {1..10}; do systemctl status php73rc-fpm.service | grep Status | awk '{print $11, $12}' && sleep 5; done
Traffic: 1req/sec"
Traffic: 1.8req/sec"
Traffic: 3.8req/sec"
Traffic: 1.6req/sec"
Traffic: 1.6req/sec"
Traffic: 2.8req/sec"
Traffic: 2.8req/sec"
Traffic: 4.2req/sec"
Traffic: 4.2req/sec"
Traffic: 1.6req/sec"

Small sample but yeah, it would probably load the server more than anything else just to find out.

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I also just ran it through a load impact test, it handled a synthetic load of 231 requests p/second with an avg latency of 13ms, so that allows some room for growth with the current specs

havoc

What did you use to load test it?

Recently played with loader.io vs wordpress a bit. Can't take a lot even on a beefy machine...until you enable caching that is.

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havoc said: What did you use to load test it?

Just a free test on loadimpact https://loadimpact.com/

I will try loader.io

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@havoc said:
What did you use to load test it?

Recently played with loader.io vs wordpress a bit. Can't take a lot even on a beefy machine...until you enable caching that is.

running loader.io 50 client sim now as I update this.

edit:

no failures but it did slow down to 1308ms load time at the end.

Thanks for showing me that tool, great for testing.

havoc

Yeah initial plan was to spin up some azure servers and use the siege app. Couple of those could sink anything.

...but that would have looked like a DoS attempt so yeah no

SpeedBus

Update pls

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@SpeedBus said:
Update pls

Only updating on Fridays now

preview:

SpeedBus

@AnthonySmith said:

@SpeedBus said:
Update pls

Only updating on Fridays now

Disk remains at 5G or was upsized? iirc last update had 80% usage

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@SpeedBus said:

@AnthonySmith said:

@SpeedBus said:
Update pls

Only updating on Fridays now

Disk remains at 5G or was upsized? iirc last update had 80% usage

still 5GB

# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1       4.9G  3.5G  1.2G  76% /

Just did a bit of house keeping.

cybertech

Do you intend to allow upload to disk? It will build up over time

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@cybertech said:
Do you intend to allow upload to disk? It will build up over time

Yep, I have some ideas on managing that for the long term, like pushing images through imgur (transparrently) when uploaded and having a link kill life on none image extensions of 1 year.

WSS

@AnthonySmith said:
Yep, I have some ideas on managing that for the long term, like pushing images through imgur (transparrently) when uploaded and having a link kill life on none image extensions of 1 year.

Or, you know, moving them onto thttpd on a 486 out of Kuala Lumpur with a 3GB Maxtor on dialup to get rid of the kids.

willie

Please keep the uploads around. Imgur deletes inactive ones which means that old forum images are broken all over the web, not good.

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willie said: Please keep the uploads around. Imgur deletes inactive ones which means that old forum images are broken all over the web, not good.

Fair one, I will probably have a separate server for images then or put some cdn offloading in place, I will work something out.

Amitz

There is another issue with imgur:
I know about at least 3 forums that have been blocked by imgur - they are considered as marketplaces, because some threads contain offers. If that happens to LES, then all images would be lost...

mikho

@AnthonySmith said:

willie said: Please keep the uploads around. Imgur deletes inactive ones which means that old forum images are broken all over the web, not good.

Fair one, I will probably have a separate server for images then or put some cdn offloading in place, I will work something out.

I know someone you could talk to on howto NOT setup a cluster.

SpeedBus

If you are interested in something that isn't imgur for images, I run https://drop.cm/ as a side-hobby, and wouldn't mind some usage of it

EDIT: If someone wants to connect ShareX to it, that's possible aswell, https://drop.cm/Dropcm_ShareX_instructions.pdf

Wolveix

AnthonySmith said: Yep, I have some ideas on managing that for the long term

You would be surprised to see how little space uploads consume on Host Balls, even after almost 2 years.

havoc

@SpeedBus said:
If you are interested in something that isn't imgur for images, I run https://drop.cm/ as a side-hobby, and wouldn't mind some usage of it

EDIT: If someone wants to connect ShareX to it, that's possible aswell, https://drop.cm/Dropcm_ShareX_instructions.pdf

imgur is in need of an alternative, but tbh the main attraction of imgur appears to be missing - anonymously drag drop an img and hotlink it.

Arguably not a particularly sustainable business model so can see why you'd not want to do that

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@Wolveix said:

AnthonySmith said: Yep, I have some ideas on managing that for the long term

You would be surprised to see how little space uploads consume on Host Balls, even after almost 2 years.

Yep, the server logs take up more space, so far I would say its been about 100mb p/week and that's essentially uncompressed as vanilla does not do a great job of that but @Phill had some good ideas to reduce that by as much as 90% in same cases without loss of experience so I will be implementing that.

SpeedBus

@havoc said:

@SpeedBus said:
If you are interested in something that isn't imgur for images, I run https://drop.cm/ as a side-hobby, and wouldn't mind some usage of it

EDIT: If someone wants to connect ShareX to it, that's possible aswell, https://drop.cm/Dropcm_ShareX_instructions.pdf

imgur is in need of an alternative, but tbh the main attraction of imgur appears to be missing - anonymously drag drop an img and hotlink it.

Arguably not a particularly sustainable business model so can see why you'd not want to do that

bingo, pretty much want to keep it as a side-project with least work/time going into it, just wish at times the .cm domain was cheaper.. wayy cheaper.

havoc

bingo, pretty much want to keep it as a side-project with least work/time going into it, just wish at times the .cm domain was cheaper.. wayy cheaper.

hmm...alternative...allow anon upload & hotlinking but just from specific domains? e.g. this forum. Not 100% sure how to do that technically tho

FHR

@AnthonySmith said:

willie said: Please keep the uploads around. Imgur deletes inactive ones which means that old forum images are broken all over the web, not good.

Fair one, I will probably have a separate server for images then or put some cdn offloading in place, I will work something out.

BunnyCDN!

mikho

@AnthonySmith said:
Will update on Friday,

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Amitz

Update time! Update time!

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teamacc

Please specify disk space and memory capacity in future updates

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@teamacc said:
Please specify disk space and memory capacity in future updates

The server a 512mb KVM with a 5GB disk.

WSS

@teamacc said:
Please specify disk space and memory capacity in future updates

What if he moves it to a CC VPS?