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01-23-2007, 02:06 AM
Saturday my niece died after suffering from brain cancer for over a year.
I drastically altered the way files were handled/served and there were quite a few problems with this all new system and I was slowed down with fixing things while taking care of family things.
A few of the big issues that came up:
1) IP based blocker at some point got FUBAR'ed from a really simple thing that I left out which ended up causing video's for most people to NOT load for a little more than a day.
2) SLOW loads. Basically there are some very large video's that PHP must open and then send to people. I have offloaded this task to the primary file server instead of having it done on my main server. Basically the main server had to load/cache the video from the file server BEFORE sending it to you. This caused resource problems and the server simply overloaded during peak times.
I drastically altered the way files were handled/served and there were quite a few problems with this all new system and I was slowed down with fixing things while taking care of family things.
A few of the big issues that came up:
1) IP based blocker at some point got FUBAR'ed from a really simple thing that I left out which ended up causing video's for most people to NOT load for a little more than a day.
2) SLOW loads. Basically there are some very large video's that PHP must open and then send to people. I have offloaded this task to the primary file server instead of having it done on my main server. Basically the main server had to load/cache the video from the file server BEFORE sending it to you. This caused resource problems and the server simply overloaded during peak times.