https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3591&p=42232#p42232
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Tormie
Sunday, 08 August 2010, 11:11 AM

Re: Emergency Plan For Posetteforever Moving
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After a lot of researches on the net :mmmh: [b]maybe[/b] I found that the problem is with the cache of the site. This issue [b]is specific to Godaddy[/b] and affects a lot of other sites.

Anyway, I disabled the cache and made a couple of changes. The cache on this kind of sites writes in the hard disk of the server informations from the database in order to speed up the requests to the database itself, the site responds a little faster. I tested it without the cache and noticed no big differences, even because we don't have such a massive traffic  :sorry: . I'm browsing the site a lot and noticed no server errors, but I don't know, because the error appears randomly, [b]so the problem may be not be solved[/b] (tell me if it appears again).

In order to avoid charching too much the databases, I changed the "new messages" on the upper banner to the old style (you'll see "New (number)" at the upper right corner when there are new messages written in the forum) while the one the we used was more extensive, but the information were stored in site's database, while now they are stored in your cookies, it shouldn't be a big deal, as far as I know, we where probably the only phpBB site that used that feature.

Well, some other informations: our main page is a little "overloaded  :redface: " it gives back a lot of informations: random thumbnails from the album, new comments in the album, recent topic, shoutbox etc. etc. so the calls to the database are many, this is why, the first time you access the site, it can even take 30 seconds to load. If you find it boring, you can change the link to posetteforever to another page (for example the forum or the album). The time it takes to load the first page is the speed of the database of Godaddy ( :uuh: ).

Now, why I insist on Godaddy? Problem is that I just renewed for two years and spent more than 200 dollars, I don't know if they would refund me :crybaby: . They are a lot of money for my empty pockets :dontknow: ... Nevertheless, if the site won't work properly, I'll move it as said in this topic.

Let me know if you meet again Mr. "Internal Server Error"

Meanwhile I'll continue the search on the internet in order to have better performances with what we have...