I'm pleased to report that the database has been up and running for almost two entire days continuously without downtime. There has been some slowness at time as I worked through issues on pages that had been causing it to slow down and eventually crash.
One of these was the "Who's Online" page which I was able to speed up considerably. Before, it had been either extremely slow, timing out, or else I had to "kill" some of the processes from it that caused the database to hang.
The other page is the Member List and the Results page from the "Advanced Member Search" link. I've had to disable this one for now, although I will come back to work with it.
At this point, I have some degree of confidence that the database itself will be stable and there should be less downtime. You will see occasional slowness at the times when I perform additional maintenace processes, including the other restores that I need to do.
Next up, I am turning to the daily content updates for the Sex Listings and Cruising for Escorts. I'll also be monitoring performance. This afternoon I hope to pick up with other restores required.
I truly am grateful for your patience and loyalty to the site. I hope that some of that is related to the openness I try to give about what is happening here. At this point I have actually received no complaints to Private Messages here nor to the CFS Editor email address. I haven't yet checked the separate Cruisemaster email account yet today, although I prefer to use the CFS Editor account as the main address for email with Members and Guests. In any case, I hope that means that you understand, are giving it time, and will be loyal. The sites need you and I'm working hard for you.
Bob
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