stevegrant

Well I'd take 1000ms over 30,000ms So last night I went through the general permissions across the site and turned off search for guests. Turns out that guests seem to do a lot of DB-heavy searching - who knew? 🤷‍♂️

Not sure. There's a lot of caching being used to reduce the number of database queries, and I guess where the Lounge is lesser-populated than the main forum, there might be fewer cache-saving triggers, but that's a complete stab-in-the-dark theory. I did notice this afternoon that one of the caching engines we use wasn't - for reasons unknown - actually installed and running on the servers. Having installed and activated it this afternoon, the CPU usage has reduced significantly (although it wasn't high anyway, barely touching over 20%, which makes the latency issue even more infuriating and confusing) and the auto-scaling we have in place has decided that one server is sufficient for our needs at the moment. We'll see how that continues...

Take this as an example (time is GMT, not BST, hence the hour difference), most of the time the latency is fine, but then you get this one weird spike that screws everything up for a couple of minutes - and it is a short period each time, it's just the last few days has seen loads of them in a relatively short space of time so it's seemed like it's constant.

Can't be that, the spikes aren't constant...

Essentially we have a latency issue, which is confusing as it doesn't necessarily coincide with any sort of spike in traffic (and of course the traffic is relatively low right now - the current setup was coping much better when we had hundreds online at once at full-time in any of the recent games). When the latency levels are low, the site runs very smoothly, and with decent numbers online. Then suddenly the latency jumps to 10+ seconds and it all falls over. It's baffling and there's no trace of what's causing it at the moment. To answer a few questions/comments from above: No, we're not going to use Tapatalk. It's a piece of crap that actually makes things worse. No, we're not rolling back to the old setup. The software was dated both in terms of the forum software and what was installed on the server itself, which was causing issues in itself which would have needed rectifying anyway. The old server has been decommissioned, we don't have access to it anymore.

A previous ad partner went under around two years ago owing us more than £5k, so that's basically where the shortfall lies. Once we've got something reliable in place to replace that, it should be fine, but I don't want to just put any old ad platform in place because some are horrendous in terms of taking over the page, etc.

To put the situation in simpler terms, the old server cost £300 per month and I wasn't willing/able to continue to subsidise at least half of that cost myself, so another more flexible solution had to be found.

I think Ralph said in a press conference either before or after Sunday's game that we'll be staying at home for pre-season, so yeah, it'll be a fully-domestic programme of friendlies.

Working on a few things to try to improve the performance but while minimising the cost too - essentially we've now got multiple servers running which can scale up and down depending on the load at the time. The key is tuning the threshold at which new servers are made available... bit of a trial-and-error thing, unfortunately.

Working on some things today. Essentially the old server was far too expensive compared to the revenue the site generates these days, so it's all been streamlined. For the most part it copes with the load, but there are occasional spikes that are causing some issues which I'm hoping to iron out today.

Come on convenient draw!

Why?

Only a couple of weeks ago I made a graphic and posted it on here in good faith - within 5 minutes you'd taken it and posted it on your Twitter feed. Just because you didn't say "look at the data I compiled myself", that doesn't mean there's not an implied act of passing it off. You do this a lot, obfuscate everything so there's plausible deniability for anybody who hasn't seen you pulling this shit for years, and it's fucking tedious.

The very modern "sorry you were offended" rather than being sorry for the act that caused offence in the first place. Ultimately, until he says he regrets the way in which he acted, rather than regretting that we didn't like it, I don't see a great deal of change in his portrayal among the fanbase.

You're never going to see the "evidence" that you want to see. Firstly, you have a history of taking stuff from here (and other places online) and passing it off elsewhere as your own; secondly, why would anybody in any sort of position of trust with somebody else breach that trust by providing details that could/would identify them? If you choose not to believe that Lallana left on bad terms because of the way he acted, that's up to you. The rest of us will get on with our lives quite comfortably without it.

Would expect the first three weeks to be behind closed doors. After that, it'll be reduced capacity with no away fans, and they'll gradually ramp up the % allowed in every few weeks, assuming the infection rate is under control.

He'll probably still get one. The champion club gets given a specific number of medals to distribute how they see fit, to players, coaching staff, other club staff, etc, with the only stipulation that any player who has made 5 PL appearances during the season must get one.

Better reactions than De Gea recently, too.

Depends on the timing of the verdicts for the FFP issues, I think. League AGM is some time in August, so as long as it gets done before then, they'd probably be applied immediately. They certainly should be, anyway - as I said above, they've dragged on for at least 18 months. Wigan's deduction will apply after tonight's games, subject to appeal, and I think it's an appeal they will likely win (or at least partially win).

Charged with various FFP breaches, largely relating to them selling their stadia to separate companies owned by the club owners for almost-certainly-inflated prices, which were basically the only reason those clubs managed to stay within the allowable loss figures. Derby seem to have a reasonable chance of avoiding punishment, they might get away with the valuation and they accounted for it properly. Wednesday should be in a whole heap of trouble - having sold Hillsborough, they accounted for that sale in their accounts at the end of one season when Land Registry records show the sale took place at the start of the following one, and the company they sold it to wasn't formed until the latter period. Basically if they did sell it during the previous period, then they're probably OK - if they didn't sell it until the latter period, then they're in breach of FFP maximum losses for the three years up until the change of financial period (think it's up until 30th June 2018, to give an idea as to how long this has dragged on for!). They'd be on the hook for a points deduction of up to 12 points depending on how far over the allowable loss figure they fall, and if they're found guilty then there's the potential for a further 9 points for an "aggravated breach" because of the way they've tried to cover it up.

It's definitely not gone unnoticed among the Arsenal fans I know. Bit weird of them, though, to pipe up about Deeney saying something that everyone else could see was clearly bang on the money at the time and to remind everyone about it when they put in a performance lacking any sort of stomach last night.

Could say the same for 10 clubs, though. A strong chance that Chris Wilder's "tough love" approach to man-management doesn't quite hold up in a second season when every other team should have worked out a way to play against them, Burnley seem to have a very weird financial dynamic which is causing tension to the extent that it's being seriously suggested that Sean Dyche might walk at the end of this season, West Ham will continue to be West Ham, whoever stays up out of the three down there will probably still be rubbish next year too, plus throw in Palace as you say, and us and Newcastle are always prone to the occasional shitshow. Then looking at the teams in the promotion shakeup, I'd expect Leeds to make a fast start but then fall away, Brentford would probably be similar with their setup. The rest would likely be favourites to go straight back down - West Brom look awful despite somehow sitting in second place, Fulham and Cardiff have pretty much the same squad that got relegated a year ago, while Forest and Swansea both look pretty weak. Best League In The World

But it's a bit of a "if my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle" argument, though, because we DO have Danny Ings and therefore have a potent goalscoring weapon.

Bournemouth can get a draw at Everton. That'll be fine.

Didn't hear that, but it would certainly be true - we had a 7-7-7 record in 83/84, 28 points.