Farked/Boing Boing'd tonight

Undertoad · 04-17-2006, 02:32 PM

I have applied all the performance tuning I possibly can to the forum... We hit a new record number of users about a half hour ago and we can actually handle a few hundred more, I think. The thread has been not only boing'd and metafiltered, but also fazed, attu'd, i-am-bored'd, is on jwz's weblog, many myspace pages and countless little forums and whatnot.

They are HAMMERING us, with like 5 incoming new requests per second. Remember the actual images are hosted on another server, so each of the nine requests for the images and the bandwidth for those is sent by another machine.

It's kinda cool though.

Luckily Fark linked to the Strategypage gallery or it would be all over... the server would have melted by now

04-17-2006, 02:32 PM	#32
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I have applied all the performance tuning I possibly can to the forum... We hit a new record number of users about a half hour ago and we can actually handle a few hundred more, I think. The thread has been not only boing'd and metafiltered, but also fazed, attu'd, i-am-bored'd, is on jwz's weblog, many myspace pages and countless little forums and whatnot. They are HAMMERING us, with like 5 incoming new requests per second. Remember the actual images are hosted on another server, so each of the nine requests for the images and the bandwidth for those is sent by another machine. It's kinda cool though. Luckily Fark linked to the Strategypage gallery or it would be all over... the server would have melted by now

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