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MySQL 5 Upgrade!

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TomFulp
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MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:19:03

Many of you noticed the site was down for a while today. We expected it to be down for less than an hour, but the transition took a little longer than expected. The result? The entire site has been upgraded to MySQL 5! What does this mean for you? Faster database access... And the addition of a new, much faster database server into the cluster.

Unfortunately, the Flash Ads were down during this transition. This sort of upgrade only happens once every few years, and I'll chalk it up to the Flash Ads still being in beta, but I'm extremely sorry that performance was impacted during the prolonged upgrade today. THANK YOU to everyone who has been supporting the ad system, I'm sure you'll all be pleased with the results!

Pico Day is this Wednesday and you can make money by running ads in your submission. More information and special Pico Day pre-loaders (with and without ads) are available in this thread!

Working on Nightmare Cops!

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Xeptic
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:21:02

Nice job, 't was running a little slow lately.

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MexicanGun
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:21:14

That means we're not getting that "server error" message anymore?

wut

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ChillyCheese
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:22:47

I didnt even notice it was down.

god damn ninjas
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Slayer3751
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:22:56

I thought it was just my computer... huh...

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Hamalo
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:23:06

first page

Alright man, thats awesome, better running newgrounds!

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ttstrangler
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:23:08

Woohoo! MySQL 5! :D

[/geek]

By the way, ad system? NG has an ad system? Gosh, I feel like a noob ._.

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Hybrid-Of-Souls
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:23:14

Meh, I hardly noticed it, except for the slight slowdown from the effect. Must be complaints coming from people who were still at school.

And yes, Pico Day is still going to be awesome.

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Rucklo
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:23:29

hooray upgrade!

NG v.2.5?

Wakka wakka

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Unholy-Kraken
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:24:47

Yes. Fuck yes.

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Perceptor
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:25:31

At 4/28/08 06:23 PM, ttstrangler wrote: Woohoo! MySQL 5! :D

[/geek]

By the way, ad system? NG has an ad system? Gosh, I feel like a noob ._.

If you're interested, here's the relevant News post:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/8898 81/1

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xpnc
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:25:55

Yay for speeeeed.

speedycat sure is speedy!

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Spite
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:26:25

Coolsies.
Also there's an open spot on the front page. Anyone else seeing it?

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ttstrangler
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:26:30

At 4/28/08 06:25 PM, Perceptor wrote:
At 4/28/08 06:23 PM, ttstrangler wrote: Woohoo! MySQL 5! :D

[/geek]

By the way, ad system? NG has an ad system? Gosh, I feel like a noob ._.
If you're interested, here's the relevant News post:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/8898 81/1

Oh, well that's cool... I like that feature.

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WAaAzZAaA
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:26:56

cool upgrade!

(woot first page)

Viva Mexico Cabrones

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whatty
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:28:43

Ah... Cool.

I hope this upgrade goes on to help the users of tomorrow. Because I can say 'I WAS THERE!' when they say how amazingly 'UPtoDATE' this site is.

Thanks staff!

Weak Men are Hard on Others while Strong Men are Hard on Themselves.

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Perceptor
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:28:53

As for the matter of increasing the server speed, I've just run a somewhat informal test (loading up two of the largest submissions on the site: Waterlollies and Nazo Unleashed p. 3), and it would indeed appear that there has been some improvement herein. I also hope that this will see the end of those error messages concerning server loads that happened every once in a while.

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Purpin
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:30:17

I was excited.

Too bad.

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Ronald-McDonald-LoL
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:32:48

Always great to have a faster Newgrounds.

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SniperWolf1564
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:33:07

Will this fix those repeated instances of "Internal Server Errors" that have been occurring too frequently?

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aquaticmole
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:34:14

Beautiful.

aquaticmole.

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juansolous
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:35:29

Newgrounds faster than ever!! yes!!

I love hunting for Blam points!!!

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Sispri
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:36:29

Yayers. Pretty smooth interface now.

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WackyAnimation
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:39:58

Nice one. I definitely see a difference in loading pages.

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disasterarea
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:40:30

Does this mean less overloaded site errors?

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Sir-Nuts
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:41:48

Well, I got quite surprised when Wade's page said "REDESIGN". Couldn't you have changed it to... upgrading or similar? And you could have also specified what were you upgrading at the time, it got quite confusing.

MySQL 5 Upgrade!

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iscrulz
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:42:01

At 4/28/08 06:26 PM, Basspro55 wrote: seems to be running pretty good now

Well not on my shitty ancient computer.

Yes I think suicide is funny and I am sick of pretending its not.

eX(Wi/Ht? #45)

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tgw1996
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:42:20

Ok, I'm not sure if it has anything to do with this but here's my problem.
When i open up Newgrounds on my Mozilla Firefox browser the whole site is scrambled.
Pictures of one game for the icon of another, links don't work, the whole site looks like a giant bug.
I don't know if the upgrade is the problem but something is.
Please help me go back to using my favorite flash site in the world.

Your very sad newgrounds starved fan,
Tanner

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PostTimeskipSam
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:44:28

Aww Sweet awesome never knew you guys were still running on MySQL 4...Always thought you were update on those kind of stuff, but woo faster!

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Jon
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Response to MySQL 5 Upgrade! 2008-04-28 18:46:25

im in ur tank, upgradin ur servers :3

i was shocked when i saw that tank WITH THAT FUCKING NOISE.

hello

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