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I am on an inexpensive shared host at the moment with a forum that has had a max online users of 58, but typically is between 15-30 logged in at a time. I have 500-800 new posts a day.
The host says that the fact that I allow images in the signatures causes a load on the server. Other than avatars, all images are hosted elsewhere (such as imageshack), and placed in the sigs with IMG tags. I know when I do a view source on a given thread, it shows the image being loaded from where the host where the image is located, like: <img src="http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/5...oodgoodbx9.jpg" border="0" alt="" />
So, does allowing images (hosted elsewhere) in signatures via the IMG tags actually create server load and server bandwidth load? Or, are the sig images all resolved at the client?
This has become an issue, because twice in the last three days I have received errors like:
Database error in vBulletin :
mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
/home/tnedator/public_html/forums/includes/class_core.php on line 274
MySQL Error :
Error Number :
Date : Saturday, October 13th 2007 @ 02:32:05 PM
Script : http://broncosforums.com/forums/
Referrer : http://broncosforums.com/forums/
IP Address :
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
When questioning them, it was because the server load become high enough that they temporarily (about a minute) stopped MySQL.
I am leaning towards just moving to a ServInt VPS solution. If I do, based on what I posted above, should the 256mb Ram guaranteed (burstable to 2048) be sufficient, or should I go with the 512mb package?
Other suggestions?
Thanks
The host says that the fact that I allow images in the signatures causes a load on the server. Other than avatars, all images are hosted elsewhere (such as imageshack), and placed in the sigs with IMG tags. I know when I do a view source on a given thread, it shows the image being loaded from where the host where the image is located, like: <img src="http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/5...oodgoodbx9.jpg" border="0" alt="" />
So, does allowing images (hosted elsewhere) in signatures via the IMG tags actually create server load and server bandwidth load? Or, are the sig images all resolved at the client?
This has become an issue, because twice in the last three days I have received errors like:
Database error in vBulletin :
mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
/home/tnedator/public_html/forums/includes/class_core.php on line 274
MySQL Error :
Error Number :
Date : Saturday, October 13th 2007 @ 02:32:05 PM
Script : http://broncosforums.com/forums/
Referrer : http://broncosforums.com/forums/
IP Address :
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
When questioning them, it was because the server load become high enough that they temporarily (about a minute) stopped MySQL.
I am leaning towards just moving to a ServInt VPS solution. If I do, based on what I posted above, should the 256mb Ram guaranteed (burstable to 2048) be sufficient, or should I go with the 512mb package?
Other suggestions?
Thanks
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