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Melodic Axeman View Member Profile	Apr 21 2007, 12:47 AM
Apr 21 2007, 12:47 AM	GMC:er Posts: 36 Joined: 20-March 07 From: Rome, Italy	HI all, I just want to question this: I have a 2MBit adsl, and i don't have any problems with other video source (Youtube for ex.), but i can't see GMC videos without waiting at least 5 minutes to load them. Does it happen to anyone of you? Is the server overloaded or just me? Thanks You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

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warchild View Member Profile	May 14 2007, 07:28 PM
May 14 2007, 07:28 PM	GMC:er Posts: 8 Joined: 12-May 07 From: Northumberland, UK	I am having problems with the videos stopping and starting. I have taken advice and I have been told it is probably to do with the server being located in the States! (And the amount of traffic on the site!). Kris, you were looking into the problem - any updates? You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! This post has been edited by warchild: May 14 2007, 07:28 PM

Kristofer Dahl View Member Profile	May 14 2007, 09:04 PM
May 14 2007, 09:04 PM	GMC Founder Posts: 18.761 Joined: 15-August 05 From: Stockholm, Sweden	QUOTE (warchild @ May 14 2007, 08:28 PM) I am having problems with the videos stopping and starting. I have taken advice and I have been told it is probably to do with the server being located in the States! (And the amount of traffic on the site!). Kris, you were looking into the problem - any updates? Yes! We have purchased a server in the UK today - Henrik will get working on this next week... Kris You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- My lesssons

Andrew Cockburn View Member Profile	May 15 2007, 12:56 PM
May 15 2007, 12:56 PM	Moderation Policy Director Posts: 10.459 Joined: 6-February 07 From: CT, USA	QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ May 14 2007, 04:04 PM) Yes! We have purchased a server in the UK today - Henrik will get working on this next week... Kris I'm curious how the load balancing will work - standard DNS swithching, or something more sophisticated based on hop number? Maybe that's one for Henrik You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab

Henrik Skotth View Member Profile	May 15 2007, 03:10 PM
May 15 2007, 03:10 PM	GMC Tech & Community Manager Posts: 443 Joined: 19-December 06	QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ May 15 2007, 01:56 PM) I'm curious how the load balancing will work - standard DNS swithching, or something more sophisticated based on hop number? Maybe that's one for Henrik Maybe it is As the main problems are with the videos, we will start by sending our european users to the new server only when watching a video, based on IP-numbers. If you have a european IP, you'll load the videos from a different subdomain (europe.guitarmasterclass.net or something like that) than the users from north america. The other parts of the site will initally remain on the US server. If everything works well, we will most likely mirror more of the site on the EU server in the next step though. The servers will be mirrored using rsync, btw. Overall it's a quite simple solution. But effective, I hope You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Tech manager @ GMC

Andrew Cockburn View Member Profile	May 16 2007, 04:06 AM
May 16 2007, 04:06 AM	Moderation Policy Director Posts: 10.459 Joined: 6-February 07 From: CT, USA	QUOTE (Henrik Skotth @ May 15 2007, 10:10 AM) Maybe it is As the main problems are with the videos, we will start by sending our european users to the new server only when watching a video, based on IP-numbers. If you have a european IP, you'll load the videos from a different subdomain (europe.guitarmasterclass.net or something like that) than the users from north america. The other parts of the site will initally remain on the US server. If everything works well, we will most likely mirror more of the site on the EU server in the next step though. The servers will be mirrored using rsync, btw. Overall it's a quite simple solution. But effective, I hope Very cunning And I'm a big fan of rsync How can we fail with technical backup of this caliber ?? For that to work, you'd need to be generating the lesson pages dynamically I guess? You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab

Henrik Skotth View Member Profile	May 16 2007, 10:40 AM
May 16 2007, 10:40 AM	GMC Tech & Community Manager Posts: 443 Joined: 19-December 06	QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ May 16 2007, 05:06 AM) Very cunning And I'm a big fan of rsync How can we fail with technical backup of this caliber ?? For that to work, you'd need to be generating the lesson pages dynamically I guess? Yep, we are generating the lessons dynamically since the last three weeks or so rsync is great! I haven't had the opportunity to use it more than once or twice before though, so I am looking forward to this (which might be a bit nerdy I guess ) QUOTE (blindwillie @ May 16 2007, 08:21 AM) rsync rules! Yeah! I love working with GMC, Kris lets me do all kinds of fun stuff! You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Tech manager @ GMC

Andrew Cockburn View Member Profile	May 16 2007, 01:33 PM
May 16 2007, 01:33 PM	Moderation Policy Director Posts: 10.459 Joined: 6-February 07 From: CT, USA	Sorry for turning this into a nerdy thread that probably only 50% of GMCers understand - I know this is annoying for the food professionals out there! QUOTE (Henrik Skotth @ May 16 2007, 05:40 AM) Yep, we are generating the lessons dynamically since the last three weeks or so You are the man! I can't see any evidence of scripting languages - which one are you using? You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab

Henrik Skotth View Member Profile	May 16 2007, 01:56 PM
May 16 2007, 01:56 PM	GMC Tech & Community Manager Posts: 443 Joined: 19-December 06	QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ May 16 2007, 02:33 PM) Sorry for turning this into a nerdy thread that probably only 50% of GMCers understand - I know this is annoying for the food professionals out there! You are the man! I can't see any evidence of scripting languages - which one are you using? We do it using PHP, MySQL and a bunch of Linux commands (and some crontab stuff to keep privilieges up-to-date). What we do, actually, is dynamically creating static pages rather than using completely dynamic ones. Much more effective performance-wise, not to mention better from a search engine point of view - using ?id=xxx etc is still frowned upon (although this could of course have been solved using rewrites) . And when new features are added we only need to press the "republish" button for the lessons to make sure that the latest updates are available in all lessons (the ones created using the dynamic system at least). All in all, it turned out quite well You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Tech manager @ GMC

Andrew Cockburn View Member Profile	May 16 2007, 02:11 PM
May 16 2007, 02:11 PM	Moderation Policy Director Posts: 10.459 Joined: 6-February 07 From: CT, USA	QUOTE (Henrik Skotth @ May 16 2007, 08:56 AM) We do it using PHP, MySQL and a bunch of Linux commands (and some crontab stuff to keep privilieges up-to-date). What we do, actually, is dynamically creating static pages rather than using completely dynamic ones. Much more effective performance-wise, not to mention better from a search engine point of view - using ?id=xxx etc is still frowned upon (although this could of course have been solved using rewrites) . And when new features are added we only need to press the "republish" button for the lessons to make sure that the latest updates are available in all lessons (the ones created using the dynamic system at least). All in all, it turned out quite well That's really cool - so you can re-generate large portions of the site from info in a DB at will, which must make it really easy to change color schemes and layouts etc yet still have static pages for performance reasons Now, tell me to go away if I am bugging you, but if you do this, how can you generate European IP addresses for the videos? Do you have a paralell set of pages, and some widget that initially routes the user to the set depending upon IP address? You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab

Henrik Skotth View Member Profile	May 16 2007, 04:22 PM
May 16 2007, 04:22 PM	GMC Tech & Community Manager Posts: 443 Joined: 19-December 06	QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ May 16 2007, 03:11 PM) That's really cool - so you can re-generate large portions of the site from info in a DB at will, which must make it really easy to change color schemes and layouts etc yet still have static pages for performance reasons Now, tell me to go away if I am bugging you, but if you do this, how can you generate European IP addresses for the videos? Do you have a paralell set of pages, and some widget that initially routes the user to the set depending upon IP address? Your not bugging me, I don't get to talk about this kind of stuff on a guitar board every day! To answer your question: I'm using a few lines of PHP code in the "static" pages (which really are only kind of static, it's still some php in there to handle the comments and stuff like that - I probably didn't mention that before) to work out where the user is from and send him/her to the right servers. If it was completely static pages, I would have probably set a cookie stores which server the user should use when he enters the site. When I would have used javascript to read the cookie and use it's data to go to the right server (the showing of videos mostly use javascript anyway, so that wouldn't have been that much of a hassle). I actually hadn't thought about that second solution before you asked me, so this just proves that we learn not just by asking questions, but by getting asked questions as well You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Tech manager @ GMC

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Melodic Axeman Gmc Videos.. Slow? Apr 21 2007, 12:47 AM

JCJXXL Which browser are you using (which version)? And w... Apr 21 2007, 04:12 PM

Pavel QUOTE (JCJXXL @ Apr 21 2007, 05:12 PM) Wh... Apr 21 2007, 09:00 PM

Melodic Axeman QUOTE (Pavel @ Apr 21 2007, 10:00 PM) Hey... Apr 21 2007, 10:48 PM

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Melodic Axeman I use firefox 2.0.0.3 and ZoneAlarm, but with IE a... Apr 21 2007, 06:46 PM

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Kristofer Dahl QUOTE (Gaelan @ Apr 22 2007, 06:03 PM) on... Apr 22 2007, 09:56 PM

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Ryan Setting the slider to unlimited...for me....sped e... May 7 2007, 05:19 AM

warchild I am having problems with the videos stopping and ... May 14 2007, 07:28 PM

Kristofer Dahl QUOTE (warchild @ May 14 2007, 08:28 PM) ... May 14 2007, 09:04 PM

mattacuk QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ May 14 2007, 09:0... May 15 2007, 09:38 AM

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Andrew Cockburn QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ May 14 2007, 04:0... May 15 2007, 12:56 PM

Henrik Skotth QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ May 15 2007, 01... May 15 2007, 03:10 PM

Andrew Cockburn QUOTE (Henrik Skotth @ May 15 2007, 10:10... May 16 2007, 04:06 AM

Henrik Skotth QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ May 16 2007, 05... May 16 2007, 10:40 AM

Andrew Cockburn Sorry for turning this into a nerdy thread that pr... May 16 2007, 01:33 PM

Henrik Skotth QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ May 16 2007, 02... May 16 2007, 01:56 PM

Andrew Cockburn QUOTE (Henrik Skotth @ May 16 2007, 08:56... May 16 2007, 02:11 PM

Henrik Skotth QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ May 16 2007, 03... May 16 2007, 04:22 PM

Andrew Cockburn QUOTE (Henrik Skotth @ May 16 2007, 11:22... May 16 2007, 05:09 PM

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blindwillie rsync rules! May 16 2007, 07:21 AM

Pavel Ok after reading this i guess i better stick to pl... May 16 2007, 05:03 PM

Henrik Skotth QUOTE (Pavel @ May 16 2007, 06:03 PM) Ok ... May 17 2007, 09:00 AM

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