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So... It has been an interesting week.. Performance should be back up. Lots of using my little IT hammer in the guts of the Virtual Server guts trying to troubleshoot and fix this. We actually had two issues one was that performance got hammered because of issues between versions of the OS and Virtual Server software when both were upgraded. 2nd unrelated to the first is that we were being practically DOS'd by a company out of Germany that was spidering the sites on the server. For days. We finally figured that out and have blocked the entire IP block they were using. Some poor souls there might not be able to see the website now but there were a bunch of IP addresses owned by the same company that were involved  all out of that same block of addresses.

I have done major surgery to the server and even tweeking websites trying to resolve this. It was a throw the kitchen sink at the problem sort of thing. It is very possible I have caused issues in other areas now and don't realize it. Let me know if you notice anything. As of the time I am writing this post Performance for me is on par with how it was prior. If it goes south again I will crawl back into the bilge pit of hell in the virtual server and hammer on it some more.

well not my home computer but it is an old 12+ years old server in a server room that allowed me to inexpensively as these things go have my own dedicated virtual server. I am not having to pay bandwidth charges so I have avoided moving to a standard hosting account. We have fair amount of bandwidth and storage space use. 18 gig of static space and a lot more traffic than I wish to pay bandwidth for with all the images and such that people surprisingly look at a lot on the DE Site. Not to mention the evil companies and search engines that spider the site way to much. If I moved it I think it would run much faster.. however it would cost a fair amount more. At some point if I get my own hardware it is possible i could get them to let me have my own hardware in the server room. Not sure if they would want more or less. There is also the possibility that they will be getting a monster server soon that I could virtualize on top of that would give much better performance for the same cost. Neither will happen soon though.

So not my home computer, its actually about 10 times faster than the server. 🙂 and my home internet is almost as fast as their server room though they are fiber and I'm on cable. However their Internet is much more reliable than mine.

also though notably faster, I still think it is slower over all than it used to be. Probably has to do with the upgrades of the OS. They jumped it 5 major versions Ubuntu 12 to 17.. so it will run slower.. kinda like running windows 10 on a computer that as running windows xp. Well it's linux so not that bad but still 🙂