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Wanted: Someone to fix horrendous Graffiti/CS Issues

My hosting company orcsweb has notified me that Community Server and Graffiti are causing such horrendous issues for their servers that put me on 30 day notice after segregating me to a separate DB server. The average CPU is at approximately 70% with spikes that push it to 100% usage many times throughout the day. I need someone who knows Graffiti to take my Vista DB powered installation and convert it into a SQL Server installation as well as upgrading me to the latest Graffiti as well as Community Server. Also this person would hopefully help track down performance issues. I don't know how much I can pay but I have zero time or knowledge to do this myself Reply here please.

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  1. Thorsten avatar

    Julian Bucknall recently went through that: http://blog.boyet.com/blog/

    Thorsten — January 12, 2010 10:42 PM
  2. Phil Scott avatar

    Hey Sam, I work for another web host. I've seen this issue in the past for some of our clients. They've have had a lot of luck using this method to get their data transferred over to a separate SQL Server instance instead of using VistaDB. blog.boyet.com/.../converting-graf (note: I don't work for godaddy, but the instructions should go for any host I assume)

    I think once you get it on the SQL Server instance you'll see the performance issues disappear. VistaDB does the job for a bit, but it just can't hold up compared to SQL Server, especially for something that gets the traffic that I'm sure your blog gets.

    Wish I could help further, but Graffiti and CS upgrades are out of my element - I'm more of a performance / architecture guy. Hopefully someone with some more experience can take the aforementioned article and their Graffiti experience and hook you up.

    Phil Scott — January 13, 2010 1:44 AM
  3. Jim Geurts avatar

    Hi Sam,

    Another alternative that may be worth it is to move the blog to Wordpress... I just moved my GraffitiCMS blog to wordpress and couldn't be happier. The migration was easy to do and was finished with about an hour or two of total downtime.

    Instructions here: jeftek.com/.../migrating-blog-

    Jim Geurts — January 13, 2010 11:01 AM
  4. Julian M Bucknall avatar

    Sam: Just reached this page through Google's Webmaster tools (the analysis shows there are a couple of links to a blog post I wrote about converting GraffitiCMS from VistaDB to SQL Server).

    I'm guessing that, since your site is serving pages quickly, you've already done the conversion. I hope my experiences and post in doing this helped. If you have any other questions, I'll be glad to help.

    Cheers, Julian

    Julian M Bucknall — March 31, 2010 4:03 PM

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