Recent content by Frank Cano

Well we are only getting/paying for one CPU, they have us throttled. Server load average is never more than 12 and there are 24 CPUs. You can see that all of our proc's CPU utilization adds up to 100. Edit: actually it does not add up! We are being cheated!!! Dumping them and moving on

Dirt low budget server for $4/mo. 1 CPU.... Bighting the bullet and moving to a better hosting company. Hope this don't come up again. But still, I would like to know what causes these bursts of processes to show up on the host.

Hi, (please forgive my ignorance, I am new to this whole hosting thing. Just an old UNIX hack from before the internet days) I had previously posted about SQL query perforamnce but that was an assumption on my part. Here are the raw observations. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We...

That would be ideal if that functionality existed.

Thank you all for the quick advice. Granted, but I could make two copies of the database and in one delete everything older than 2 years and in the other everything newer. Then for the older db, start up a second forum on a subdomain pointing to the old DB for those wishing to do searches for...

Hi, We run a smallish forum but it has been around for a long time and thus, the SQL db is large and since we are small, we are on a budget host site. Looking to improve the SQL query speed. Any advice to get us pointed in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Some questions...