Bugfix

The new templates did not load correctly, this issue has been fixed.

315 templates!

I've put some more time into installing more templates and have now reached a total of 315 free templates! A greater range for all of you to choose from :) and free as always!

Installing more templates

Soon you will have the opportunity to choose from more free templates!
We're currently aiming for 200+, which will hopefully be completed before the end of this week.

Cheers,
Victor

Whoops

I forgot to add a startup script for lighttpd so actually we've been running Apache for a while which might have been the reason why the server has been a bit sluggish during the weekend. It seems to run smooth now with lighttpd :D

I've configured the startup scripts so this shouldn't happen again.

Sorry for any convenience this might have caused.

New inactivity checker

It seems like we have lots of inactive accounts that possibly slow down the system, so in 30 days a new check will be added that will remove all shoutboxes that doesn't have at least 1 post every 30 days.

So as long as you have at least a post per 30 days you can ignore this except that you'll probably get a speed boost because of a smaller database ;)

Software switch finished

Now we got lighttpd running for all dynamic content as well and it seems to boost the performance quite a bit :D

We'll also run a test without the daily shutdown to see if it will stay up anyways.

And another thing is that we have removed cookie-based sessions for freeshoutbox.net so hopefully the double posting messages some users have reported should be gone.

Update on the upgrade + Switching server software

Yesterday we finished the addition of an extra lighttpd server for the static content, so now the system is running fine on 2 dedicated boxes.

We felt so content with lighttpd so we'll switch over to it for the dynamic content server as well later today, that means we have a scheduled downtime later today. However we've done a test run on another server so we think it will be very short.

So performance has increased and will increase further after this upgrade, we might also be able to remove the scheduled everyday server-restart after this, more info on this later.

Thanks for hosting with freeshoutbox.net!