Re: WebTen Slowdown

[Mike Jezierski <pcdoctor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And I quote Terry Allen who said:

>> We've given up on WebTen. It's now crashed twice today with Type 2 errors.
>> Webmail don't work with EIMS like it's supposed to [even on a brand new
>> install] and Tenon has yet to call us back. We're going to try WebStar. What
>> good is a "fast" web server if it won't stay operating?
>> 
>> 
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>> Michael Jezierski - System Administrator/Internet Engineer
> Hi Michael,
> I'd be seriosuly reconsidering the move to Webstar. I have had
> Webstar sitting on the server crash without being connected to an external
> network. There was no activity (including internal network activity) on the
> machine at the time & it just froze the machine, something like 27 times on
> the one day & it happened over a period of several days. Starnine support
> was simply unable to come up with anything resembling a solution & 4
> reinstalations of various Mac OS versions did nothing to improve it's
> stability. The only thing which didn't crash & which I loved, was Webstar
> Mail, which is notorious for it's instability.
> I'd be looking at reinstalling your Mac OS on a freshly formatted
> Hard Drive & starting again. Try just the basic WebTen install & setting up
> one domain to start with. Maybe it's something of an extension conflict, or
> perhaps even bad RAM. In my experience, bad RAM affects Web servers more
> than a lot of other applications. Worth a shot.
> The issue with EIMS is well known. You could try either running it
> on a separate machine, or perhaps try another mail server like Tenon's
> NetTen or the free Stalker Internet Mail Server (SIMS) which has a great
> reputation. With the exception of the difficulty in setting up some aspects
> of NetTen, I'm very happy running WebTen V3 & NetTen 1.4.6 on the same
> machine.
> I don't know if you've pared back the control panels & extensions
> on your machine, but having a lean system without anything extra can also
> help to speed things up. I have pared the OS back on my server on both Mac
> OS 8.6 & 9.0.4 to run with a system stack of just under 16MB. Certainly
> sped a lot of things up.

That's what we're wanting. Something to do virtual hosting, virtual domains,
Email, web based email and DNS. The works. We thought we had that in WT.
Turns out we were wrong.

Oddly enough we can in today and another program running on the same machine
croaked with a Type 2 (MacRADIUS) but a couple of attempts to restart MR
caused the whole Mac to gasp and die. So the quest continues.


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Michael Jezierski - System Administrator/Internet Engineer
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