#Sensational-Adelaide Hosting Fund - Donation Thread

[turnip]

I must give my apoligies, i have not been able to get to the bank the last two weeks because i have been working late all that time, I'll try and make my donation this friday, don't worry it's coming

Thanks cruise, that would be good. I'll give you my bank details later in the week.

[Howie]

I must give my apoligies, i have not been able to get to the bank the last two weeks because i have been working late all that time, I'll try and make my donation this friday, don't worry it's coming

Thanks cruise, that would be good. I'll give you my bank details later in the week.

Turnip.... that's about enough now. Your posts are getting on the nerves of everyone.

Cruise ignore him... my apologies for the trolls we've been getting on the forums of late.

[Cruise]

Dang, and i was about to come up with a witty comeback

[teflon fox]

Any further donations or has it dried up Howie ? We seem to be a couple of hundred
short of that 2 year figure you wanted .

[Howie]

There's been one other .. i've just updated the first post. The tally now sits at $981.74. So yes we're still a little short off our 2 year goal.. but i'm confident we can get there. But i'm really really stoked that we're able to move off that old server.. hopefully everyone's noticed the speed/performance on the new server.

[Howie]

Okay now that we're onto the new webserver, it looks like we're still getting a few overloading issues.

Hello,

Services in your VPS were killed due to OOM(Out Of Memory), this happens when memory usage exceeds the specified limit and kernel forcefully kills certain processes to free up memory.
Please have a check at the logs below:
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-bash-3.00# hostname

Aug 25 00:00:18 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process couriertcpd (pid=8697, ve=1003) (mm=850c5680) exited, free=4821 gen=77456.
Aug 25 00:00:18 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process courierlogger (pid=8650, ve=1003) (mm=b30471c0) exited, free=4821 gen=77458.
Aug 25 00:00:18 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process smbd (pid=2654, ve=1003) (mm=b117fd00) exited, free=5269 gen=77459.
Aug 25 00:00:18 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process mysqld_safe (pid=8954, ve=1003) (mm=766263c0) exited, free=5317 gen=77460.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process pure-authd (pid=26976, ve=1003) (mm=b3baa680) exited, free=8997 gen=77474.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process exim (pid=27193, ve=1003) (mm=ba3dd480) exited, free=9077 gen=77475.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process courierlogger (pid=8725, ve=1003) (mm=5872b9c0) exited, free=9397 gen=77477.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process portsentry (pid=27321, ve=1003) (mm=b8eff980) exited, free=12501 gen=77479.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process authdaemond (pid=8726, ve=1003) (mm=ab25e180) exited, free=12645 gen=77481.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process bfd (pid=21200, ve=1003) (mm=a2bd8080) exited, free=14309 gen=77483.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process cpsrvd-ssl (pid=31592, ve=1003) (mm=b68c0c80) exited, free=15333 gen=77484.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process exim (pid=27206, ve=1003) (mm=5f263cc0) exited, free=16885 gen=77488.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process crond (pid=21069, ve=1003) (mm=b8383780) exited, free=17157 gen=77489.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process nmbd (pid=2638, ve=1003) (mm=6608f140) exited, free=17285 gen=77490.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process saslauthd (pid=27285, ve=1003) (mm=ba3eec80) exited, free=17285 gen=77491.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process entropychat (pid=12670, ve=1003) (mm=bd3d2f00) exited, free=20821 gen=77493.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process exim (pid=27200, ve=1003) (mm=888d76c0) exited, free=20827 gen=77494.
Aug 25 00:00:19 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process bfd (pid=21060, ve=1003) (mm=b8382f40) exited, free=23379 gen=77496.
Aug 25 00:00:20 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process pure-ftpd (pid=26973, ve=1003) (mm=5872ac00) exited, free=23459 gen=77497.
Aug 25 00:00:20 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process cpdavd (pid=12587, ve=1003) (mm=bfe87180) exited, free=27795 gen=77503.
Aug 25 00:00:20 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process spamd (pid=724, ve=1003) (mm=5f263740) exited, free=31315 gen=77505.
Aug 25 00:00:20 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process chkservd (pid=20762, ve=1003) (mm=a2bed400) exited, free=31315 gen=77506.
Aug 25 00:00:20 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process named (pid=20632, ve=1003) (mm=ba957200) exited, free=32275 gen=77507.
Aug 25 00:00:20 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process crond (pid=21050, ve=1003) (mm=45562100) exited, free=32307 gen=77508.
Aug 25 00:00:20 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process bfd (pid=23042, ve=1003) (mm=b0037480) exited, free=33283 gen=77509.
Aug 25 00:00:20 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process sh (pid=21095, ve=1003) (mm=b8154f00) exited, free=35219 gen=77513.
Aug 25 00:00:20 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process dcpumon (pid=21114, ve=1003) (mm=aafb3cc0) exited, free=35571 gen=77514.
Aug 25 00:00:20 vz2 kernel: OOM killed process cpanellogd (pid=12632, ve=1003) (mm=ad03d200) exited, free=42763 gen=77522.
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I have restarted all the services and your domain should be loading fine now. Please note that if this issue persists, you might need to consider an upgrade to Plan2.
Let us know if you need further assistance.

hmm.. problem is Plan2 is a nearly twice the price. :S We'll see how we go, otherwise we may have to try bumping our donation thread again.

[teflon fox]

There's plenty of regular contributors to this forum who haven't yet donated to this cause - and i don't mean the students
who would find it difficult. I think with a little persuasion more people will come on board.

[Howie]

I think we're managing the memory problem alright at the moment, we're just going to have to wait for another big news day to see how our server goes under full load. If we need, we could do another donation run to get us to the next plan up.. it's the final step before going a dedicated server (and that's something i'm not too keen on at the moment).

[Edgar]

And how much are we looking at?

[Howie]

And how much are we looking at?

It'll be most likely double the current plan we're on. But we'll play it by ear and see how this one handles a really big news day.

[Wayno]

did we get enough $$$ for the 2 year plan?

[Edgar]

I should presume so, I just chip in my part at the last minute, I would be happy to contribute more in the future if needed to. I have had a few hard times getting in earlier this week.

[darksidelemm]

I'd be interested to know what kind of load this site puts on your server.
The main problem with Virtual Private Servers is the artificial system resources limit, which i'm sure is annoying with a popular site such as this.

[Howie]

sent you a pm darksidelemm

did we get enough $$$ for the 2 year plan?

Just about, although depending on how our memory holds up we may have to goto the next plan up. We're chewing through ram like you wouldn't believe.

[ghs]

A couple of suggestions :

Adding a facility which will enable users to upload photo's directly to this site. It a bit of a pain
having to upload them to another site and then link them up.

Setting up closer links between this site and the adelaide city council. Michael Harbison obviously finds it useful
to log on to this site and view the public's opinion of projects.