10-12-2014, 05:18 PM
Here's an update on our gallery. We have found the problem and have implemented a workaround since there is no real solution. Packey thinks that the gallery with almost 5000 images in it, could be maxing out. Apparently, when someone opened the gallery and started viewing photos in it, our server saw that as a denial of service and shut down. Yup, the whole server shuts us down for some 15 seconds and will keep us locked out for as long as we keep searching the gallery database. There are a few changes that Packey made that relieves that condition for now, but..... we are still asking that we avoid putting anything new in the gallery since we don't know what the limit really is and if the next problem will cause the gallery or Big Blue to crash and we lose a bunch of photos. It's OK to look around now, just don't add anything for now.
We are looking into adding a second gallery that is not dependent on the first one and uses different software.The photos in the gallery now will remain there and the gallery will become read-only so we won't lose anything that's there now. In the meantime, we ask you to either use a photo sharing site like Photobuckets to link to, or you can attach your photos to you posts.
Mikey, I and the staff thank you for your understanding, these things happen at times as does unexpected glitches in the software.
We are looking into adding a second gallery that is not dependent on the first one and uses different software.The photos in the gallery now will remain there and the gallery will become read-only so we won't lose anything that's there now. In the meantime, we ask you to either use a photo sharing site like Photobuckets to link to, or you can attach your photos to you posts.
Mikey, I and the staff thank you for your understanding, these things happen at times as does unexpected glitches in the software.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD