Hire a new system admin
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I don't think you know what you're taking about - I've worked with cloud systems for 3 years and have administrated pretty large networks utilising systems like Docker. Also, I'm very reputable outside MCM (https://phineas.io) - which proves I'm not putting anyone at risk here - especially if he gives me an NDA to sign. If you're going to counter against me, please give reasoning. Not to mention I've been on this forum before both owners, anyway.
I'm not much of a sysadmin, but I do manage quite a large Garry's Mod RP server. They don't get as much traffic as MCM but they're one of the biggest GMOD servers getting about 4-5M requests per week.
We run fine on a 4GB x 4Core VM. The heavy hitters are MySQL transactions sinces they're almost unique for every visitor.
Anyway, what I was trying to get at is don't assume how easy it is to be a sysadmin for this big of a website. Don't assume their set up for all we know d3l3t3d is trying to put out a fire. Now I'm not saying its not his fault, they should all be more transparent on the issue.
Tl;Dr: don't assume it's easy to sysadmin large sites because you don't know one bit of their setup and what goes on behind the scenes.
We run fine on a 4GB x 4Core VM. The heavy hitters are MySQL transactions sinces they're almost unique for every visitor.
Anyway, what I was trying to get at is don't assume how easy it is to be a sysadmin for this big of a website. Don't assume their set up for all we know d3l3t3d is trying to put out a fire. Now I'm not saying its not his fault, they should all be more transparent on the issue.
Tl;Dr: don't assume it's easy to sysadmin large sites because you don't know one bit of their setup and what goes on behind the scenes.
A website like this isn't hard to exactly run or keep up, I've run a website with 5000 concurrent visitors and managed to run it without scaling at first on a GCE 1GB VM. This shouldn't be hard to run if they knew what they were doing and/or they knew how affected the site was.
You were saying that they "might be putting out a fire" - that's what I was referring to. Sorry, what did I miss?
I am no expert on hosting websites, I currently use a small vps for my sites and cloudflare. It works perfectly fine, I have read the arguments on this post, however I am going to agree with what others have said about AWS not being needed. In my opinion all you really need for a relatively large site is a box or vps, and good ddos protection. I personally believe that something like ProxyPipe or Cloudflare would work very well for this and a dedicated box would be fine. This is not Netflix, and I do not believe it will get as large as something like that anytime soon. AWS may be good, however a simple dedicated server with a proper ngnix config + cloudflare or proxypipe would do wonders for the site. Now I know that I am probably rambling now, however I believe what I am saying. However, I do believe that the current leadership of the site is trying their best. They are trying to make money as most of us here are, downtime causes them to loose money which is bad for them. I doubt they mean to cause all the downtime, but I do agree some mistakes on their end could have help stopped some of this downtime. Now, what's done is done and it is on AWS now. It would take more work to move it back and cause more downtime, so I think for now we should all just relax and wait for the final bugs to be fixed. It is no use crying over spilt milk, which is what we are basically doing when we criticize the way the site is setup. Anyways, I'll leave it at that and I hope that we all can get over this and move on with our lives.
OMG your profile pic, its on point. I loved that movie.https://mcmup.js.ai/
Been going since 02 January 2017
Pulled the data to actually look at downtimes:
There was some decent weeks, but as of lately (and 2nd week in February) it's been pretty bad.
Cloudflare would be far far better than ProxyPipe for this. Cloudflare is built for websites, and is far more than just DDoS protection. It includes features that speedup site loading times, as well as a number of other different things.
That may me true, but in my experience, proxypipe has also increased the speed of my website too. Secondly, proxypipe also does websites, I am not 100% sure, but I think they do. Coelho may be able say more about ProxyPipe and websites.
I have nothing against proxypipe and think its great for some things. It may also increase the speed of websites. But that doesn't many its anywhere close to the level of cloudflare.
Cloudflare has a number of features proxy pipe doesn't. Here is just a few:
- Auto minify (Reduces the size of HTML, CSS, JS files etc. Therefore meaning smaller files need to be downloaded to view the site, reducing network strain and increasing loading times)
- Automatically reduce the file size of images, been delivered to mobile devices.
- Caching. Instead of every time someone visits MCM. The assets like the logo etc needing to be downloaded from the origin server. Cloudflare keeps a copy in cache and delivers that. Reducing loading speeds further, and reducing network load.
- Statistics page. Including a geo location based map, showing which areas of the world MCM is more popular in. Along with graphs displaying detailed information.
- Complete DNS manager, where changes take affect far faster than using your register. Since they commonly had a TTL time of 1/2 hour, whereas cloudflare has 5m.
- Railgun with the business plan, which lowers loading speeds. (Though is a bit extra work setting up)
- ProxyPipe has 3 DC's. Cloudflare has 102, and automatically connects you to the one closest to you. Therefore reducing latency and loading times.
I'm also aware of what you're trying to say, however the point Wvisoecj made which I conveniently underlined for ya
is that YOU seriously do not know what is happening behind the scenes. You can not say that the current system in place isn't hard to maintain or that it's not difficult to keep up UNLESS you have worked with/on every type of machine running every type of software with a large variety of users and extra shit that mcm has. No one knows what is happening, it's pretty hard to jump to conclusions and claim like you know it's an "easy" task to upkeep mcm in it's current state.True, but it still doesn't prove the fact that something isn't being done wrong. They've tried multiple times to fix this with error and as SpigotMC manage to run on Linode servers, it proves that something here on MCM isn't being done right - but I do understand what Wvisoecj is saying.I'm also aware of what you're trying to say, however the point Wvisoecj made which I conveniently underlined for ya
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