My server came to a screeching halt last week and after trying a few things, including restarting all services and even rebooting the server, I finally asked my ISP’s support staff to take a look and a few hours later they had it running again.
I updated Mint afterward from 2.15 to 2.16.
Looking at Mint and comparing the numbers to the averages each day for the past few weeks, I thought traffic on our server had dropped off for the Labor Day holiday weekend but I looked at my Google Analytics stats and they had actually increased slightly from the norm. Usually GA and Mint are quite close. Google is about 20% higher in every category.
The discrepancy between the two continues today and I can’t figure out if it’s the Mint update or the server tweaks.
Here are the server tweaks as described by support staff:
A.
“I corrected the issue by moving MySQL to the end of the startup sequence as follows:
mv /etc/rc3.d/S64mysql /etc/rc3.d/S99mysql”
B.
“1. I opened up /etc/resolv.conf with an text editor (nano) 2. I added “nameserver 127.0.0.1” so that when trying to include links via PHP, they went to the local resolver first rather than something externally.”
Would either of these affect the way Mint records visits?
I have also noticed occasionally hiccups with Mint since upgrading to 2.16. I keep a Safari window open on an extra monitor with updates refreshing every ten minutes on a relatively busy server. The window sometimes hangs when it refreshes the panes. Alll I get are the headings. Quitting and restarting Safari is the only thing that appears to work. I just moved the refresh up to 15 minutes and (so far) the hangup hasn’t happened in the last hour but the behavior had been erratic the past few days anyway.
