Dreaded White Pages Return - 07/28/2004 4:19 PM
*sigh*
After a couple of months of no white pages appearing on my board, in the past couple of days, we have been getting bombarded.
I haven't made ANY changes since I went through the last problem (we narrowed it down to an unstable hack @ the time) [this would've been back in May], so I'm a little clueless (okay, A LOT clueless
) as to why they are happening now.
I sent an e-mail to my host company to ask them what the error logs report. They will probably come back and say, "Reduce your membership database (i.e. remove the people who no longer post) AND delete old threads."
I can do that; in fact, I've been planning to do that, but I have two issues with that advice:
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The next two weeks are going to be extremely crazy for me, so I won't have the time to go in and start zapping members and/or pruning forums (besides, I'm still not absolutely convinced that's the problem)
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I'll try to describe what I see when I go into a corrupted topic.
Posts usually are reserved to one line within the .cgi file -- no matter HOW BIG the post, right?
What happens with the pages that turn to *white pages* is it'll split into more than one line.
Am I making sense?
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This just drives me absolutely crazy ... I have a problem with the board ... I try to isolate the reason for the problem ... we seem to do that ... everything runs just *fine* for a couple months, and then, BOOM!
I want to reiterate: I have NOT made ANY changes to the board since May ...
After a couple of months of no white pages appearing on my board, in the past couple of days, we have been getting bombarded.
I haven't made ANY changes since I went through the last problem (we narrowed it down to an unstable hack @ the time) [this would've been back in May], so I'm a little clueless (okay, A LOT clueless
) as to why they are happening now.I sent an e-mail to my host company to ask them what the error logs report. They will probably come back and say, "Reduce your membership database (i.e. remove the people who no longer post) AND delete old threads."
I can do that; in fact, I've been planning to do that, but I have two issues with that advice:
- There is no proof that that is problem
- Here at UBBDev, you have a membership list that is far greater than mine, and I know that you keep threads here for a long time ... why don't YOU have white page issues, too? IOW, see #1
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The next two weeks are going to be extremely crazy for me, so I won't have the time to go in and start zapping members and/or pruning forums (besides, I'm still not absolutely convinced that's the problem)
----
I'll try to describe what I see when I go into a corrupted topic.
Posts usually are reserved to one line within the .cgi file -- no matter HOW BIG the post, right?
What happens with the pages that turn to *white pages* is it'll split into more than one line.
Am I making sense?
----
This just drives me absolutely crazy ... I have a problem with the board ... I try to isolate the reason for the problem ... we seem to do that ... everything runs just *fine* for a couple months, and then, BOOM!
I want to reiterate: I have NOT made ANY changes to the board since May ...