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Merry XMAS with year stats

First of all, I wish you merry XMAS and happy new year, let all of our dreams comes true and nothing bad happen. But you read this everywhere, so let’s focus to more important stuff. I wanted to write this article a long time ago, but as usually I had no free time, but I [...]

Upgrade: PHP5 and other stuff

Hi folks, today we’ve upgraded PHP4 to PHP5. While testing PHP5 it seems everything works, but now, as you can see, you get blank page or strange characters sometimes. After debugging this issue, we’ve come to conclusion it is caused by bad communication with web server 2 and db server, so we redirect traffic from [...]

Packet lost solved

Is 0:55 and we are pretty tired, but we are going to bed with good feeling. Just look at:
240 packets transmitted, 240 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
Yes, it seems so, we solved this problem, big thanks to DanGer. Now servers are connected using 1Gbit private switch, web2 is still connecting in old way, because there [...]

Movie FPS, sub format, upgrade

Today was another active day. I’ve added to search, report and upload pages - movie FPS. Basically - I wanted to disable this, because not everyone knows FPS of movie (and there is some technical issues), but there were some requests…
On internet exists some funky Polish subtitle formats like TMPlayer (tmp) and MPL2 (mpl), so [...]

New fulltext search

MySQL fulltext searching is not good. Webmasters know this - it is too slow for webs, which have more than 10 people on site So I decided to bring online new fulltext search engine - sphinx. After some days of work, debugging and so on, we can say - it works. I hope now [...]

Servers upgrade summary

Hello people,
some of you might have already noticed that opensubtitles.org didn’t work for past couple of days correctly. This was due to the move to a new hardware and new operating system version of our servers at collocation, as the old hardware was already pretty much loaded and site was a bit slow. Also a [...]

New servers are ONLINE

Hi all opensubtitles.org fans. We are proud to inform you that we have upgraded all 4 servers to a new hardware, which means site should work better and faster. If you encounter any problems, just let us know. Also we are really sorry, that the site was offline for some time, but we had really [...]

Next web server

Hello guys,
we ordered and setuped next web server for OpenSubtitles.org. Why we did this ? Answer is simple - one webserver was not so powerfull as first one, so when you get data from this one, site was slow.