TheFlyingGerbil Posted June 25, 2013 Report Share Posted June 25, 2013 oops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 (edited) I will let you all know, Final Fantasy ⑨ is the strongest! It is no baka! Edited June 26, 2013 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 WHY IS NO ONE VOTING FOR FFIX!!! Also I'd be tempted for a "super donator" level but you voted for VII so no super-donator for you. (Though I really should fish about to see what extra features and tweaks I could do. Like do something to the site for a month in your honour or something.) I don't do it for the rewards. Love this community. Happy to support it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 I scoured this thread and could not find out how to donate. So. How do I donate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 (edited) Click on one of the three Final Fantasy logos in the first post. Which one you click constitutes a vote for that one, but doesn't actually have any effect beyond a silly game to find out the popularity of those games on here. *Edit* - Though dean might have an aneurysm if someone doesn't vote for FFIX. Edited July 18, 2013 by TheMightyEthan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 OH GOD HE VOTED FFIX, but he didn't because.. I'm a moron and it shows up at "Team FFIX", but the Reference is "Xtalk_FFVIX". Also I swear Mal voted FFIX too. And yeah I'll put the donation bit in bold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 Does that technically make it a vote for FFIV? VII will win this anyway. Just change them all to VII and embrace the inevitable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 Of course I voted for FFIX. It's the best one. I would never vote for any final fantasy above IX. Thus, that the site registered my vote as if it were for XIV constitutes a bait-and-switch. Dean has defrauded me and I will be pursuing all legal means at securing restitution. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted July 18, 2013 Report Share Posted July 18, 2013 Mai kupos everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Alright, gonna res this here thing. Dean, if it's not too much more to get better hosting I say go for it. How much more exactly will it cost? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 I'm happy to contribute for speediness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Yeah I could pitch in a few £ if it was to make the forum y'know..usable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Right: Lowest tier VPS is $15/month($180). Currently we* pay $10.95/month for shared hosting. Forum software is about $30/6 months. Domain is $15/year. If there was interest $50(and $10/6month) gets the community blog stuff for the forum too. Currently there's $30 in the kitty (merci Ethan). I should add that's the lowest tier price. It then jumps to $30/month, then all the way up to $200/month (which I'd hope wouldn't need ever) *just me the past few months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Do we think moving to VPS would help with the slow site? If so, I'd be all for it, but I also don't want to pressure you into more expensive hosting since you often end up covering it out of your own pocket (not that you should, you should let us know when we're running low ). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2014 More than likely would. I'll enquire with Dreamhost and see what they say (though obviously they'd be all pro-higher monthly amount) on the topic. I asked at work and the web developer said it'd be overkill, but I think he's thinking of the kind we use since he also gave a ballpark figure of £100/month(for us it includes support and much fancier features than what DH have). But for $4/month extra "overkill" would be quite fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 So I hit up Dreamhost about it. The have a week trail to figure out the requirements of the server. They kinda ducked on the "what happens if it's over the lower tier" question mind. Hopefully it's not a case of in a week whatever it goes to I then have to pay. I wouldn't mind a bit of a nod that folks are up for continuing with donations mind, should the forum be upgraded, even on lower tier that's an extra $60 I'd have to cover should donations wholly dry up. I wouldn't mind covering it, though it's a bit of a "money where mouth is" on the slowness issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 I'm perfectly willing to continue supporting the forum, I just forget about it. We need some way to keep track of when the money's running low. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 Well, I work from home now, and it gets boring so I'm hitting up the site lately. Unfortunately it's also a bit slow, so most times I just give up. I know stuff is posted on the first post, but maybe a google doc sheet would be better? It's bookmark-able and it's a spreadsheet too so we can track lots of numbers and could use advanced functions like automatically summing up cells to come up with totals!! In any case, I made a donation and I hope it helps. I'm all for a faster site too... With E3 coming around, I know we all are going to have lots to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 In about 15 minutes we should be on to the 7-day trial of the VPS. E3 should be one of the busier periods so it'd let us see what we need during a peak. If it turns out at the end we need to be on a higher tier than the $15 version, then might be some issues 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 PXOD this morning. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 Zippidee-doo-dah, zippidee-day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 In case anyone is curious this is current usage, so well within the 300MB limit for the $15 tier. Also this tool will be pretty handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 So what's so gimpy about what you were using before the trial? Is it just the amount of memory they dedicate to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 So I get what Total Memory is I think, but what are Cached and Actual Memory? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 It's on shared, so if any other site pushes out resources (or ourselves as well, we got "killed" a few times) then it all goes to poop. This it's currently 2,300MB (of which we're using 300mb and next week will likely be going down to) entirely dedicated, can't get it pushed out. Also we were on 142MB(or 124MB) for the forum, which I had had to tweak bits to get that much RAM allocated for us(which is why the site would get killed). So yeah, 300MB is twice that, and you can see from the above graph, 200MB is the comfort zone. @Ethan: I'd assume it keeps a bunch of the tables for the sites in memory rather than dynamically retrieving it on the fly, which might be what was killing the forum, given over the years we've obviously ended up with bigger tables. Hence my attempting to slice up some of the longer lasting larger threads and enabling the archive feature (btw if there's a thread you want un-archiving pipe up). Which sort of alleviated it, but I could only do so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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