I think everI woke up this morning around 10am or so. raf   and I were up until 4am again playing World of Warcraft. I have SO much fun playing that game with him, especially when he's got voice on cause he's makes the FUNNIEST comments ever. It's hilarious! I am looking into getting voice options turned on (so long as the server core supports it). I think that would be rather neat. I know official has it, but I am not sure if this software is capable of it yet. So yeah, we're level 12 now, and we've pretty much completed the Brill zone, I have a feeling we'll be going down to the Sepulcher area to quest...definitely have a LOT OF FUN! I've actually got some screenshots to post, but they're on my PC so they'll have to wait for another time.

Today I spent about 8 hours working on some new web stuff for the server and getting our server submitted to a bunch of top sites for gaming. There was one site I had trouble with, I think it was because our website runs on a non-standard httpd port, which sucks, but the rest of them worked well. So the 2 sites I got up and running are the Armory and also some new forums for the server. I think every thing came out looking really good and it all works REALLY well. There's a few bugs left over to squash but it's nothing that completely ruins the site.

jimmy worked on TheMangosResource.com a lot today, still has some work to do on the forums like adding some forums and changing some other around. Definitely looking awesome though! I am glad we've got the software updated and the 2 pieces of software mashed together again...haha

Ok, so the other day when I went to update my Scribbld the update.bml page was all smashed together, there was no text box hwere you type in your entry, so I tried the usual things, signing out and back in, removing all my cookies, resetting Camino and nothing was working...but it worked fine in Safari (weird?!). So the next thing I did was download a beta build of Camino 2.0 which did actually fix the issues. Today I thought of one other solution I could have used instead of downloading a new version of my web browser. I could have tried to delete the PLIST (preference) file which I am almost sure would have fixed the issue. I won't know for sure, but I guess using this new build is kind of cool, right?


The next thing in my mind today came when I was coming back up from the barn. MangosProject was down today, showing some sort of database error if I recall correctly. Ever since I started visiting them again, I've noticed there are usually no less then 11,000 users online at that site. It definitely has had troubles sending private messages and even posting messages on the boards. My assumption of today's downtime is that the database just got too overloaded (but don't quote me on that). Either way, it got me thinking about how you could break up a set off forums so that you could run it over multiple servers. The answer that came to my head right away was to use multiple web servers. Obviously a really easy solution to implement. But that doesn't really fix the database getting loaded with so many requests. So I pondered in my mind for a bit long about how the heck you could use multiple database servers for forums. So then it came to me, that you could IF you wanted run your categories off a database server. For example, let's say you've got 1 category with 10 forums, another category with 5 forums, another categorywith 15 forums. You would need 4 database server. 1 server would hold users and user information, sessions, and possibly be the web server, and shit like that while the other 3 database server hold content and whatever else is associated with a forum. Obvsiouly a lot of work would be required to have some sort of setup like that, but farming out categories to to their server would reduce the load on a single database server, once the user clicks into a category, their sent to a new server. You could even combine it with multiple web server so you have 6 servers or so instead of 4.

So those are my ideas of the day, mostly just random incoherent thoughts :D

Tonight I'm playing some Warcraft on our server, feel free to come and join, if you need info/help on how to, let me know :)