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cloud performance increase vs price question

Using Jamroom


The input audio files are corrupt - those are bad files. They should take seconds to convert - not days.

Support Ticket lists

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{jrCore_list} will list tickets just like any DataStore module. Put a debug in your row template and you will see all the ticket variables that are available.

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updated by @brian: 12/30/14 09:39:08AM

My Developer Tools skin cloner is not working right

Installation and Configuration


All the stuff should have been kept intact. I have test this here, and all customizations I make to one skin are transferred to the clone. It's not clear to me what you're actually doing though. Are you cloning the LATEST NingJa skin and trying to customize that? I really don't know what you are doing.


I would say something is wrong on your site. Updating a skin NEVER changes anything you have customized - ever. But regardless, you should not be doing your customization ON the actual NingJa skin, but instead:

- clone the NingJa skin
- make your customizations on your CLONE.


I think this is correct, but you're not understand how cloning works.

If you clone a skin that has NOT been customized (i.e. NingJa) then it is NOT going to have customizations in it that you have added to a CLONE of skin (say jrNingJaCustom).


Yeah I think there is - this should not be causing you all these problems. Here's how you do it:

- starting from an UNMODIFIED skin - i.e. Nongja, create your custom clone - jrNingjaCustom
- modify the templates/css/images in jrNingjaCustom
- when new release of jrNingja come up, update. This will not change anything in jrNingjaCustom. You can update jrNingja all you want without worry.
- now if you want to MIGRATE the changes in jrNingja over to jrNingjaCustom DO NOT clone again - you will wipe out your changes in jrNingjaCustom!!! Instead, go into the TEMPLATES tab in your jrNingjaCustom skin and click on the COMPARE button. In the compare select drop down in the upper right corner, select the jrNingja skin. This will now show you the difference between your custom skin template and the jrNingJa template. If you want to update your template with the one that is in jrNingja, just press the button to do so.

I have a feeling you are re-cloning, which is going to wipe out changes if you clone again over TOP of an existing clone.

Let me know if that makes sense.

Thanks!

Changing default image sizes in Home Page Galleries, Profiles

Installation and Configuration

There's a ton of different sizes you can set the images to, and lots of different places where they can be set, so it is all handled in the templates (not the ACP).

So this instance you will want to customize the skins/jrNingJa/jrGallery_index.tpl and skins/jrNingja/jrProfile_index.tpl - you can modify both of these from the "templates" tab of the NingJa skin in your ACP.

The NingJa skin however is responsive, which means it will adjust it's layout for both mobile and desktop - however this also means that you're a bit limited in the size you can make your images and have it look correct (i.e. still be responsive). Right now the jrGallery_index.tpl is setup to use the "col3" class, and with 12 "columns" on the page, you would have to move to a col2, which would make you go from 4 wide to 6 wide.

So to do that, everywhere you see "col3" change it to "col2", and in the {jrCore_list} function call near the bottom, change the "pagebreak" value from 12 to 18.

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Bounced emails

Jamroom Developers

The only email bouncing handler in Jamroom is in the Mailgun module - make sure you're using Mailgun (setup in your Postfix) and then you can browse bounced emails from the Mailgun -> Tools tab. If you need lower level info on email, you'd want to use the Mailgun API:

http://documentation.mailgun.com/api_reference.html

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seamless video listing issues

Using Jamroom


Yep - pagination works exactly the same as in jrCore_list - i.e. just add


to the jrSeamless_list function call.

cloud performance increase vs price question

Using Jamroom

Jamroom Cloud is not about making your site faster - in fact it is likely a little bit slower than a properly tuned single server (that is not overloaded). Whenever you distribute a system across multiple servers, you now have to add network latency to the system, so you often end up with a slightly slower system. However, it is a system that can scale much larger.

A properly tuned JR server is like a Ferrari. Jamroom Cloud will let you create a cluster that is more equivalent to a Mac truck - it's going to handle A LOT more load, but the top speed is not going to be what you get from the Ferrari.

With that said, there's a couple pieces of the Jamroom Cloud that might be of interest:

- The Conversion Client/Worker/Server modules - this allows you to setup a single server (or cluster of servers) that are dedicated to audio and video encoding. If you find that the encoding is bogging your server down, that can help.

- The Cache and Session Client - this interfaces with X additional MySQL servers that are used exclusively for session handling and/or caching (you can have separate server(s) for caching and separate server(s) for sessions). This can take a big load off your master MySQL server and help speed up your site.

I'm still tweaking things from the new site roll out but will be getting documentation and diagrams online for Jamroom Cloud over the next few weeks that will outline this stuff.

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My Developer Tools skin cloner is not working right

Installation and Configuration

This should be fixed now with Core 5.2.18 and Developer Tools 1.3.2 - update, clone and your cloned skin should fully work.

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seamless video listing issues

Using Jamroom

I've just run this on my site here:


and it works as expected. Do you have a jrSeamless_item_list.tpl file in your skin directory? If so delete it.

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