Keep up the great work guys, I'm sure it's been one hell of a couple days.

oh and *QUALITY !!!

Awarding dag with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by thesnipe.

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BTW, if any Sifter is or knows a system administrator with experience tuning Apache - we could use MORE hands on deck. ;-)

for the love of pete! First of all, static1 should be running a lighthttpd or something with mongrel.

Secondly, disable logins temporarily so all page views are the anon account.

Thirdly, put up a static front page just for now.

Also, I'd try disabling the code that increments "views".
I'm assuming you are out of RAM. Is this a VM or your own box? did you set hdparm and noatime?

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static1.videosift.com is running off of a CDN, so it's not on the box at all.

We have plenty of ram, CPU is our issue, particulary with Apache.

And we're on a dedicated dual Xeon box.

Agreed, keep up the great work. I never knew how addicted I was to VS until the site was down during the switch -- now I know it all too well

It has gotten better in the last hour or so...thanks guys.

Yes, since yesterday it's improved, thanks.

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned already, but I was hoping that the Unsifted page could default to the setting of 'Newest queue date'? Not simply because it is as it was in the previous version, but some users may not notice this setting as they're browsing. I fear that new posts could go un-noticed and expire if they're only seeing the 'most voted for' first.

But otherwise, very nice update - I love the compact listing style, since the preview images often show little about the video.

Yes, the pages load pretty quickly now, it is just the initial 5 second delay until it the server responds.

And I also think it might be nice to either be able to set in the profile the default sorting (dropdown) or maybe set by a cookie for your previous preference.

Is there any way for me to enlarge the thumbnails? I use
videosift 99% of the time from my HTPC, and with the previous layout the thumbnails were big enough to be easily viewed from a normal living room distance. Now they're so small as to be completely unusable.

Dag: CDN? Coral Cache? One problem, my workplace blocks 8080 and 8090 and other weird ports.

It's loading a little better for me. Don't fret guys...we're patient. Thanks too.

aero, nope. Instead of the page waiting to load 20 images and embeds from youtube, now there is a cached thumbnail and javascript twistie. You can always enlarge the fonts, so you know which videos to expand and then click play on the flash.


CDN is the old hosting provider. But that is a good idea. Maybe I'll start using coral for the front page... execpt I think the 5 second delay still is in play. (You shouldn't be sifting at work.)

BoneyD - the rationale for changing the default sort option was discussed here. It doesn't seem to be working correctly, but I think everything is lower priority to server responsiveness.

It's getting faster! Definitely more usable right now.

Nice work on the fine tuning of the new setup. It sounds like you will be able to customize it however you like now. Sweet.

*the code

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Unfortunately the recent speed-up has more to do with coming out of peak time, than anything we've fixed.

Tomorrow is going to be a bit rough I'm afraid- because US Mondays are usually very high (slackers!)

Nice work on getting the site back up running, I hope everything gets fixed soon.

I wanted to mentioned that play listed You tube videos embeds are no longer working, the submission just says it's an invalid embed code.

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Thanks Farhad- I don't understand about the playlisted you tube videos - do you mean they are not displaying from the playlists? Can you give me an example? I couldn't find anything not working from the playlists.

hey dag, lucky etc. the site looks very very cool, congrats.
best of luck with the teething problems, it was never gonna be simple.

Dag, I think he means the YT embed that have the multi-video thingy with like part1, part2, etc. I don't feel like digging up an example, but you know what I mean.

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ah gotcha, the youtube multi-video thingo - thanks. We'll look at that.

And thanks DD.

ditto big improvement overnight ... i'm in the UK at the moment if that makes any difference... keep it up boyz!

How often are you feeding the hamsters? What I have read is that they like to be fed twice a day, fresh pellets if possible, that will make them run faster and more consistently.

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LOL I've been feeding the hamsters Jolt cola, but they crash after a while.

Just another issue I noticed. I have no wait time for saves or promotes. Seriously I could save or promote to my hearts delight with no wait time. Is this a glitch or intentional. Either way I thought you should know.

"System Error

We apologize for the inconvenience, but an unexpected error occurred while processing your request. This may have happened either because a page was loaded by visiting a stale link or because of an internal system error. The website administrators have been informed and will research this problem as soon as possible. If this error is entirely unexpected, please wait a few moments and retry your request.

The message associated with the error is:
We apologize for the interruption in service, but an internal error has occurred while interacting with a database. (Out of memory (Needed 209715172 bytes))"

"LOL I've been feeding the hamsters Jolt cola, but they crash after a while."

Hamsters! Well that's your trouble right there.. Gerbils are MUCH faster.

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