| VinnyVideo |
Drivers, start your engines
May 12 2025, 11:33 PM
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For the past year-plus, MFGG performance has been pretty iffy. Sometimes it's been OK, but a lot of the time performance has been lacking. I'm sure we've all seen some 504 errors after a particularly slow page timed out! I've tried a few solutions over the past year, and while some of them helped, none of them really fixed the problem. Until now! Sean, a good friend of mine, generously gave up a piece of his evening to help me investigate what's causing these performance issues. And thanks to his help, the MFGG server is running much, much better now! MFGG runs on some relatively old software - software that was never designed to handle the army of bots and scrapers we have nowadays. Some of these bots send multiple requests every second, and MFGG's software was not built to handle this kind of traffic. Sean helped tweak some database engines, adjust indexes, and fine-tune a finicky query. These SQL tweaks combined to make MFGG's performance much, much better. A glance at the system logs shows almost no timeouts have occurred today. That's a good sign. Of course, I can't guarantee that we'll never have a performance hiccup again - there are still a bunch of places where we can improve performance. I'll continue monitoring MFGG's performance to make sure things continue running smoothly. You can help by speaking up if you notice any errors or slowness. Finally, Sean is awesome. Tell Sean thank you. Maybe send him some brownies or something. |
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SonicKade2048 May 12 2025, 11:35 PM |
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thank you Sean!! o7
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bekfstman May 13 2025, 10:12 AM |
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Sean's definitely awesome for that <3
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Thebrainhellscape13 May 14 2025, 9:35 PM |
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Yayayayaa, w sean
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Rhubarb May 15 2025, 12:15 PM |
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Thank you sean, here are some brownies
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