Okay, good news on the ATT Orain side of things:
The site crapouts have been resolved. Turns out the DNS settings for one of the servers was so hosed up it was causing the entire site go pear shaped, John has fixed that.
The Collection extension works now, to an extent. Use the 'Create a Book" feature to make the book, then try making a PDF out of that or a PediaPress printed version. Don't use the 'Download as PDF" option on the sidebar, it'll just render whatever random page it has selected at the moment. The first option will start on a random page, but you make a book with whatever you want.
Note, it renders kinda slow, but it does work now.
We have had to pay a small price in that we no longer have Cirrus Search/we've reverting instead back to the old search engine, which is slower, but a lot less of a resource drain, a price I'm willing to pay if it means all of Orain is fairly fast otherwise across the board.
The spare server will be retooled for another purpose (we're discussing that as I type this), but hopefully we can use it further optimize our service and prevent this slowdown nonsense from happening again.
Please report further issues if necessary.
Also, I have been asked not to make further statements for the time being, but our talks with the current owner of TV Tropes have been extremely pleasant and very promising, more details when I can release them, but if I were a Magic 8-Ball, I can say:
Outlook Very Good.
The site crapouts have been resolved. Turns out the DNS settings for one of the servers was so hosed up it was causing the entire site go pear shaped, John has fixed that.
The Collection extension works now, to an extent. Use the 'Create a Book" feature to make the book, then try making a PDF out of that or a PediaPress printed version. Don't use the 'Download as PDF" option on the sidebar, it'll just render whatever random page it has selected at the moment. The first option will start on a random page, but you make a book with whatever you want.
Note, it renders kinda slow, but it does work now.
We have had to pay a small price in that we no longer have Cirrus Search/we've reverting instead back to the old search engine, which is slower, but a lot less of a resource drain, a price I'm willing to pay if it means all of Orain is fairly fast otherwise across the board.
The spare server will be retooled for another purpose (we're discussing that as I type this), but hopefully we can use it further optimize our service and prevent this slowdown nonsense from happening again.
Please report further issues if necessary.
Also, I have been asked not to make further statements for the time being, but our talks with the current owner of TV Tropes have been extremely pleasant and very promising, more details when I can release them, but if I were a Magic 8-Ball, I can say:
Outlook Very Good.