The Lit chat?

[Phelia]

As stated elsewhere, perhaps you need to monetize something in Lit to subsidize the free speech forum you have created, which has a life and value of its own?

That is a good idea!!!!!!! Say, Laurel, have you and Manu ever considered making money from your worldwide web-site? You can do that on the the inter-net these days, I've heard. And then you could take that money from the profitable part of your website, and invest all of it in developing the parts that will never stand a chance of providing any sort of revenue for you because since you made this place, that we use and enjoy for free, you OWE us.

I've just had another idea, jupija: why don't you log off and cover your body in lukewarm porridge?

 

[parodyluvr75]

why don't you log off and cover your body in lukewarm porridge

What isn't a fetish these days?

I bet that would be good for the skin.

 

[lovetoread]

I've rubbed oatmeal over my skin.

It felt nice.

 

[eyer]

I like lit, I want to see it flourish, but I don't want to see them have such a talented pool of writers who would benefit from exposure as much lit would benefit from advertising for the alternative of simply begging for paypal donations.

Perhaps I'm being unfairly presumptuous, but I assume you include yourself within that "talented pool of writers who would benefit from exposure"...

...why don't you and the rest of that "talented pool" just bring your special selves over to the GB and let the GB give you all the exposure who could possibly ever wish for?

 

[Laurel]

That is a good idea!!!!!!! Say, Laurel, have you and Manu ever considered making money from your worldwide web-site? You can do that on the the inter-net these days, I've heard.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/a12d3765bbef390e0be8f332d7aaa844/tumblr_mvpr74WEbc1sgl0ajo1_500.gif

 

[ratman2]

I noticed that the message board was very slow to load this morning. Perhaps a working chat could help take some load off of this very large board.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Laurel]

I noticed that the message board was very slow to load this morning. Perhaps a working chat could help take some load off of this very large board.

Chat is on an entirely different hosting company on entirely different servers from the forum and the story side. They are not even remotely related.

 

[butters]

Chat is on an entirely different hosting company on entirely different servers from the forum and the story side. They are not even remotely related.

did you get manu to explain that to you, laurel, since you're a girl and stuff so would never understand how Lit all worked otherwise?

*bites lip*

 

[ratman2]

Chat is on an entirely different hosting company on entirely different servers from the forum and the story side. They are not even remotely related.

Laurel,
Yes, being a *nix admin and webmaster for many years I was well aware of this. But that was not quite what I meant by my post. Allow me to explain:

As you are probably aware, any message board requires an SQL database to work properly. Anytime someone does anything on the message board the SQL server is queried and the required data is pulled from the required tables and the PHP webpage that is being requested is then generated and served to the user. Now, when these message boards get large it is obviously going to increase the load on the SQL server. I know the Vbulletin message board software quite well because I am a global moderator at Team Chevelle where we also use Vbulletin. Team Chevelle has a fraction of the users that LIT does and the loads that the Team Chevelle message board puts on the server is fairly high. I can only imagine what the main load values are right now on this server, where the board and stories are. I noticed that you had to close all of the very large threads recently as a load reduction measure. In 99% of cases chat does not even care about SQL so a working chat can be used as a load reduction device, provided enough people use it

 

[unregistered]

 

[JohnnySavage]

Fvck... I just re-modulated the Load Reduction Device.

 

[ratman2]

Sick.


Some people.

BEST laugh I had all morning

 

[unregistered]

 

[JohnnySavage]

I think my copy of the Chat Technical Specifications Manual was missing a raster layer

 

[Laurel]

Laurel,
Yes, being a *nix admin and webmaster for many years I was well aware of this. But that was not quite what I meant by my post. Allow me to explain:

As you are probably aware, any message board requires an SQL database to work properly. Anytime someone does anything on the message board the SQL server is queried and the required data is pulled from the required tables and the PHP webpage that is being requested is then generated and served to the user. Now, when these message boards get large it is obviously going to increase the load on the SQL server. I know the Vbulletin message board software quite well because I am a global moderator at Team Chevelle where we also use Vbulletin. Team Chevelle has a fraction of the users that LIT does and the loads that the Team Chevelle message board puts on the server is fairly high. I can only imagine what the main load values are right now on this server, where the board and stories are. I noticed that you had to close all of the very large threads recently as a load reduction measure. In 99% of cases chat does not even care about SQL so a working chat can be used as a load reduction device, provided enough people use it

The chat is hosted Flash chat. It does not use our MySQL database at all.

Again, it is hosted on an entirely different server in an entirely separate part of the country from the rest of the site. There is no sharing of data between any other part of the site and chat - not users, nothing. They affect each other not at all, in any way shape or form.

Still, I appreciate the suggestions.

 

[parodyluvr75]

I've rubbed oatmeal over my skin.

It felt nice.

Pictures?

 

[unregistered]

 

[ratman2]

The chat is hosted Flash chat. It does not use our MySQL database at all.

Again, it is hosted on an entirely different server in an entirely separate part of the country from the rest of the site. There is no sharing of data between any other part of the site and chat - not users, nothing. They affect each other not at all, in any way shape or form.

Still, I appreciate the suggestions.

Correct, meaning that it could be used to take some pressure off the board Hence the term load reduction device that we all love so much this morning

You're very welcome

 

[Laurel]

Correct, meaning that it could be used to take some pressure off the board Hence the term load reduction device that we all love so much this morning

You're very welcome

Chat is hosted by the company that manages the chat software. The server on which chat is hosted is not ours. There's been talk of dedicated hosting, but we haven't done that since we're not sure whether we are going to keep this chat software and are still actively seeking a better solution.

The Lit forums and story side are hosted on about a dozen or so servers, many of which have been recently upgraded with load balancing, in a specific configuration. We haven't had any load issues recently. The only issue we had for a bit was that activity on very-long threads was taxing the MySQL and lagging things. Since we started closing such threads, the site speed has improved by a lot. If you're still seeing slowness, please let me know where!

 

[ratman2]

Chat is hosted by the company that manages the chat software. The server on which chat is hosted is not ours. There's been talk of dedicated hosting, but we haven't done that since we're not sure whether we are going to keep this chat software and are still actively seeking a better solution.

The Lit forums and story side are hosted on about a dozen or so servers, many of which have been recently upgraded with load balancing, in a specific configuration. We haven't had any load issues recently. The only issue we had for a bit was that activity on very-long threads was taxing the MySQL and lagging things. Since we started closing such threads, the site speed has improved by a lot. If you're still seeing slowness, please let me know where!

Noticed it going to come on to the board the morning. Fine after that so far

 

[Queersetti]

Noticed it going to come on to the board the morning. Fine after that so far

You were trying to access the board at the same time as all the wingnut alts.

 

[pointless]

anymore chat threads you wanna bump, sport?

 

[ratman2]

You were trying to access the board at the same time as all the wingnut alts.

That's probably the case.

 

[Queersetti]

anymore chat threads you wanna bump, sport?

I'm running short. Think I'll go bump some old Brinnie threads.