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One of the challenges of maintaining the website, is to manage load. Under normal circumstances, things work well. Recently, we had a number of users that were using download managers. Normally, that is OK too. But they all chose to do it at the same time. The impact? The CPU load of the server went high, and new requests were failing.

So. Whats the answer? The existing setup is using Apache. That works, but it could work better. It uses lots of CPU and memory, which in turn makes things slow. There are faster alternatives, but they are not integrated so well into our overall setup.

To get the best of both worlds, I created a seperate web server running nginx just for downloads. Everything else is still working the way it was... but downloads can now happen much faster.

This is all new, and there may be some glitches during the early days. But let me know of any problems and I'll try to sort it out.

Czokie

06.06.2019
 
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  •  agarpac: 
     
    edge, chrome, and firefox unable to connect bda.....
    any reason why?
    is it because region?
     
     02.11.2019 
    1 point
     
  •  radiance: 
     
    BDA has been fine for me the few times I've used it over the last several months. Fine right now, and I like the new function. All-round fast in display. Full MAME list, in its length, is near-instant when pulling the scroll bar up and down the list. Download of 500kb file was instant.
     
     03.10.2019 
    0 points
     
  •  Israel3: 
     
    "The webpage at https://bda.retroroms.info:82/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address."
     
     28.09.2019 
    0 points
     
  •  mdanihy: 
     
    Looks like the new server cannot handle the load as well. Nothing but "Unable to connect"
     
     27.09.2019 
    0 points
     
  •  bensweeneyonbass: 
     
    It's because of Flash going out, right?
     
     27.09.2019 
    0 points
     
  •  kennetrunner: 
     
    Looks like the downloads section is offline or having some problems...
    The page loads but the frame inside 'Downloads' says "bda.retroroms.info refused to connect"
     
     24.08.20191 replies1 replies 
    5 points
     
  •  tomforys: 
     
    Still the same problem. What should I do, to have possibility to download?
     
     26.07.2019 
    0 points
     
  •  dodfr: 
     
    hi, cannot download roms anymore (could until last month), it always ask for my login/pass, any idea why ?
     
     01.07.2019 
    3 points
     
  •  soren: 
     
    I am locked in, but nothing is showing in the download area !

    I have tried windows explorer, firefox and chrome but nothing show.

    PLEASE HELP !!!!!
     
     29.06.2019 
    0 points
     
  •  trycoon: 
     
    Could BitTorrent be used? That would distribute the load between the members and stress the servers less.
     
     18.06.2019 
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