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sangiro

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Heya all,

Apologies for the server errors you've been experiencing the past few weeks. We have outgrown our current machine again. We are good on bandwidth for now but the two 1.8 GIG processors are just not carrying the load.

I'll be purchasing some upgrades in the next few days and maybe add an additional machine in the near future to share the load. Hope this will fix it (at least for a while!)

I've attached a graph that shows the New User Registration for this year. It's a good problem to have! :)
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I am computer illiterate, but does eliminating all the duplicate users help with the bandwidth?



Nope. This is caused by active users, meaning, people actually logged in and using the site at the same time. Just having duplicate accounts doesn't do anything. (unless you have 100 and log all of them in at the same time!)

The risk in duplicate accounts is in the possibility of abuse - not in server load or bandwidth. :)
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Looks like it's time to break out the old CC again and donate. What do everyone else think?

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I'll be purchasing some upgrades in the next few days and maybe add an additional machine in the near future to share the load. Hope this will fix it (at least for a while!)



pssst.....hey everyone, if you've been thinking about donating to the cause but just haven't gotten around to it, now would be a good time. ;)
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because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

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FOr example, if I closed out the site while I was working?



Why even ask this question? We all know the problem are the true post whores and the true post whores do not work, yet for some reason are still gainfully employed.:P



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pssst.....hey everyone, if you've been thinking about donating to the cause but just haven't gotten around to it, now would be a good time.



I'm still waiting for his reply.
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HH:

Would it help if we all did not stay logged on to to site when were weren't actively using it? FOr example, if I closed out the site while I was working?



i am guessing that concurrent log ins are not a problem. it is concurrent accesses, i.e. everyone pulling 50 forum headers all at the same time that snaps the mflops.

oh yeah, the big problem i notice lately is too many connections.. see above, not a too many user logged in problem, is a too many user pulling pages at same time problem. capisce?:P
namaste, motherfucker.

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i am guessing that concurrent log ins are not a problem. it is concurrent accesses,


Correct.



Sangiro -

Could it be that with the new rule of needing a valid userid to see the incidents forum, we are getting more short timers registering just to gain access, thus increasing the new user registrations?
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A registered user and a "guest" is the same to the server. No difference whether people browse logged in or not. It simply has to do with the number of people asking for pages...

The number of people on Dropzone.com, registered or not, has simply grown! That's it. :)
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This is probably a geek question, but have you considered (or do you currently) implement FastCGI or mod_perl for the forum scripts? It can make a _huge_ difference in the number of concurrent loads you can put through a given set of processors...

But I've also just sent in a big wad of bail money, so hopefully that'll help a little. Thanks for keeping this behemoth up and running for all us DZ.junkies!
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Naahhh..
They need one of these at the front end and one of these at the back end.

Cache the most frequently hit objects, or the biggest static objects, and you can really reduce load on a web server. Apple did it for their web sites and went from many web servers that were all super loaded, to a handful that barely break a sweat.

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