Over the last 3 months a number of improvements have been made to the Wonderland History website and the infrastructure running it.
1) New website.
A brand new Drupal 7 based website that allows easy creation of content and will last into the future.
Members can comment on any of the content & use the forums.
Advanced members can upload pictures and create site content.
2) Website speed increase.
Installed a PHP accelerator & optimizer called eAccelerator.
It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator reduces server load and increases the speed of the PHP code by 1-10 times.
Apache HTTP server performance tuning and optimization.
MySQL Database server performance tuning and optimization.
An extra 2GB of RAM was added to the server.
As always when undergoing a huge change there was problems....
Users using IE where sometimes getting strange results when trying to browse the site... same for older versions of Chrome and Firefox. These problems have been fixed and as far as i know there are no more strange bugs or problems. please send me an email if this website is not working for you! wonderland@wonderlandhistory.net
How do I upload photos and video files? 1986 through 1993. Live shows.
Hi Graeme,
At the moment the best way to get your content on the site would be to email it to me direct, wonderland@wonderlandhistory.net
OR.. if its too big to email i can set you up with another method to transfer your files to Wonderland HIstory.
If your super keen and wanto add/edit site content, upload pics, and help maintain the site, then thats a different story, would require a very small amount of basic training on howto use the system, if you want to go down this route then flick me a quick email wonderland@wonderlandhistory.net
Kind Regards
Chris