Site performance, Server errors, outages and tunings

[Like Ra]

New kernel.

I noticed a periodic 500 error (see https://www.likera.com/forum/mybb/Thread...3#pid76753).
As a test, I changed the following PHP settings:
- Minimum available processes - from 10 to 12
- Increased PHP memory to 200MB
- Output buffer from 4k to 16k
- Compression - from no to 9.

So far, I do not see any performance improvements, but let's watch for the "blank screens" and error "500"...

[Like Ra]

I posted many Aliexpress links recently, but without photos. Ali switched to AVIF/AV1 image format (it's MUCH superior to JPG), which is not supported by MyBB. WEBP was also not supported by MyBB until I "hacked it in". But the lowest PHP version, which can work with AV1 is 8.1, and we are still on 7.4. We can upgrade to 8.3, but some important plugins will stop working, and will have to be debugged and fixed to be able to work under 8.x. And since the developers disappeared long time ago, it should be done .. he-he... by me... So....

Upgrades have become very painful, but they are absolutely necessary.

For the time being, we have to convert to JPG.

[brandynette]

OMG!
you must be in pain hotfixing old tech...
hang in there!

cant you like copy paste the text to a new forum CMS?
giggleee

[Like Ra]

cant you like copy paste the text to a new forum CMS?

What text? 72k posts, 60k attachments, and 12k users? To what CMS?

[brandynette]

i know, i was just trying to be silly to lighten your mood.
72k + 60k attachment's, well users, 12k damn Ra...

you could setup a second forum as a subdomain & slowly port active users while hard linking to the original post till the active thread has been painstakingly moved

isn't there a way of filtering a mybb db & reformat it into a newer forum?

[Like Ra]

i was just trying to be silly to lighten your mood.

That was actually ... depressing ... 😆

you could setup a second forum as a subdomain & slowly port active users while hard linking to the original post till the active thread has been painstakingly moved

To completely screw everything up? 😂

reformat it into a newer forum?

Any ideas which?

[brandynette]

have you heard of LLMs?

ill pimp you my AI GF to help out?
I dunno... o,O
Can you keep rolling the large ball in the sky forever?

[Like Ra]

What are you smoking today @brandynette ? 😂

[Tinker D]

I have no idea what that user said nor do I even want to know.

[Like Ra]

I can answer this:

Can you keep rolling the large ball in the sky forever?

Because, well, this is my goal 😉