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So are you needing to get new hardware still, or did you already get the replacements? A lot of us are still getting hit with SMF's cannot connect to the database, or simply timing out. I had SMFs cannot connect to database errors 12 times before I was able to load into this topic Dunno who restarted the MySQL server, but the max_connections setting went down to 60, which is what is in /etc/my.cnf and which is too low. For some reason I have always just tweaked the settings via the MySQL console after I did restarts. I've now also updated my.cnf. The problem is that 60 connections isn't sufficient so you'll quickly run out of connections and get that error. Restarting MySQL only momentarily fixes that because it incidentally kills all connections when doing that. I should probably have written this somewhere, but for a long time, I was the only one who ever touched the server so it wasn't really necessary.

Sorry if you've been having trouble accessing the website. The server has had some hardware problems. It should be alright now, but if the issues persist we might have to move it to another machine. Again, sorry for the inconvenience.

The Web Freaks, Inc. No. I don't understand that question. What exactly do you want to know? About nine years. Kissimmee, Florida, USA. The Web Freaks has an office, but PHP Freaks doesn't. Eric Rosebrock is the owner of The Web Freaks, Inc., but I don't believe his title is CEO. No. PHP Freaks is run by the volunteer staff that you can see on this website. The (paid) staff at The Web Freaks is not involved with the operation of this website. In the time of writing, 97,802 members. This information is freely available on the front page and forum index. 673,475 page views per month according to Google Analytics. 2,356,950 according to awstats (parses the Apache access logs). Both of those are for the last 30 days. This isn't public information. No.

Here you go... Top one is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.13 Safari/534.7 Bottom one is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100915 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.10 [attachment deleted by admin]

Sticky topics in PHP Help are obviously not supposed to be asking for help. That would be pointless. Seeing as no staff member has got around to stickying this yet, I'll just do it.

Deprecating the working volenteered staff structure further. Guru and PFR have never been considered staff. Read the stickies... For the record, I still have the same permissions on the forums that I had before. You can consider that a warning. Stop trolling the forums.

Has anyone ever read those? Just because you have a habit of not reading rules, stickies and other important information doesn't mean nobody else do...

You can integrate that with PHP Unix man pages as well to get the full documentation. pear channel-discover doc.php.net pear install doc.php.net/pman Now you should be able to access PHP documentation like pman strpos. Then it's just a matter of setting keywordprg to pman for PHP files in vim.

I don't think you got my point. Take phpfreaks.com for instance. With all the custom installations and configurations, there is no way shared hosting would work for us even if they provided us with enough resources (disk space, bandwidth, memory, CPU time, etc.). There is just not enough flexibility for our needs. This is completely regardless of resource usage and others might very well have the need for this kind of flexibility without having high resource needs. Setting up an SVN repo was just an example.

Man... I've always wanted to know what the last digit of pi is. Can you post it here? Besides, I wouldn't call calculating a lot of pi's digits or generating reverse lookup and rainbow tables for "normal usage". What makes you say that? What if you want to run custom services like your own SVN repository? What if you just don't want other people on your system for security/stability reasons? What if you just want to manage your own software or don't want to have to go through the hoops of various control panels to do something you can do efficiently from the shell? The minimal required RAM for a desktopless Debian install is 64 MB RAM. The recommended minimum is 256 MB. If you don't install some bloated cPanel or whatever (or even worse, a desktop environment), you'll do just fine starting out with 256 MB. To be honest, I don't see the point in paying for more when you can upgrade at any time you want.

You must be every salesman's dream. Easy to oversell. I bet you would do just fine with 256 MB. The benefit of a VPS is that you can change how much memory you're allowed to allocate while it's running, so it's just a matter of contacting the sales department asking for an upgrade. Why would you pay for something you don't need? Especially seeing as you've got a £20/mo max. Reaching that will be much easier if you scale down your requirements to something realistic. There is no way you'll need 1 GB (or even 2 GB) memory if you don't even have any traffic yet. Also, "unmetered bandwidth"? That's not going to happen. At least not within your price range.

Are you sure you need 1 GB memory? This server uses about 1 GB of memory right now. It has a semi-large database, an active forum, an IRC server and corresponding IRC services as well as a daemon for a live chat client. What kind of traffic do you have?

The Java Runtime VM doesn't compile the code when you execute .class files. At that point it has already been compiled.

Maybe your computer is just slow?

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Have a look at this: http://vim.wikia.com/

There is a GUI version for it. It's called GVim.

There is also a vim plugin for Eclipse.

Mine would be Zend Studio, NetBeans and vim (in no particular order).

This is a continuation of this topic: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,54859.0.html

If you want advanced stuff, you have to move away from PHP book and buy books that deal with general programming stuff. Programming is not just "programming" though. There are many different things you might want to focus on. You could read about algorithms and make your stuff run fast. You could read about things like semantics and lambda calculus to get a better idea of what exactly a programming language is. Maybe things like computability would be interesting, i.e. what is it possible to compute, and can it be done within reasonable time (has a lot to do with algorithms as well). Maybe you would find concurrency and making things run in parallel interesting. Or you might be interested in how to make well designed applications, or how to manage programming projects. There are so many things to programming that it's difficult suggesting an "advanced" book. I might suggest Introduction to Algorithms, but if algorithms aren't really your thing, you might find The Pragmatic Programmer more interesting. Both books can be said to be related to programming, but they are very different books.

We would encourage everybody to introduce themselves here so we might get to know you and "old" members are very welcome to introduce themselves as well.

I've got a VPS. A dedicated server would be overkill for my needs.

That's quite a surprise to me. As I said, it is something I would expect from any web host. Then again, I've never purchased shared hosting.

I would expect all webhosts to have that.