What happen? (Someone set us up the crash)
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- benheck
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The PS3 controller thing was on Digg yesterday and the traffic crashed this site. Again. So I've upgraded to a better plan.
The site is back up at the moment, not sure if it's on the new server yet or not, but for best results take it easy on the forums / downloads / whatever for a day or two to lessen the risk of crashing it again before the new server is a done deal.
-Ben
PS: There you go.
The site is back up at the moment, not sure if it's on the new server yet or not, but for best results take it easy on the forums / downloads / whatever for a day or two to lessen the risk of crashing it again before the new server is a done deal.
-Ben
PS: There you go.
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Yes I thought my last plan woud solve this problem, and was told that it would. Not terribly happy, to be honest.
I checked the stats, it crashed yesterday with 17,000 ish unique visitors and about half a million hits. This may sound like a lot but the average daily hits is 200k and visitors is about 3-6 thousand. Suffice to say, we've suffered bigger storms than that before it crashed, usually the stats would be in the hundreds of thousands of uniques when it went offline.
Anyway HOPEFULLY this new plan will cover anything (like the old one was supposed to) It's supposed to be faster too, though I have a feeling the site isn't actually on it yet. So don't put anything super-critical in the forums because it might get lost.
I checked the stats, it crashed yesterday with 17,000 ish unique visitors and about half a million hits. This may sound like a lot but the average daily hits is 200k and visitors is about 3-6 thousand. Suffice to say, we've suffered bigger storms than that before it crashed, usually the stats would be in the hundreds of thousands of uniques when it went offline.
Anyway HOPEFULLY this new plan will cover anything (like the old one was supposed to) It's supposed to be faster too, though I have a feeling the site isn't actually on it yet. So don't put anything super-critical in the forums because it might get lost.
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Bandwidth allowance maybe, but still there's only so much traffic one server can handle at a time.
Jeez, with the new plan's probable cost, you'd probably be better off leasing a fiber connection for your house and run a cluster of Xserves in your basement...
Jeez, with the new plan's probable cost, you'd probably be better off leasing a fiber connection for your house and run a cluster of Xserves in your basement...
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Infinite Improbability Plan YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your bandwidth can be everywhere at once. Hehe.
So, you got Digged huh. That is a crazy amount of hits. I would have thrown up an ad too. You could probably retire just off it.
I guess it makes me wonder what kind of plan Dig and Hackaday have...? Or they just have their own fibers to blades.....(Gibsons)...
So, you got Digged huh. That is a crazy amount of hits. I would have thrown up an ad too. You could probably retire just off it.
I guess it makes me wonder what kind of plan Dig and Hackaday have...? Or they just have their own fibers to blades.....(Gibsons)...
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actually, I think I heard that you can use flickr for about $30/month for unlimited bandwidth, and there is nothing that says you cannot host images for other sites. But yeah, Ben, please link the logo to the main page. Since the forums are in a new window, it seems too separated from the rest of the site.
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