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Guess we can expect a flood again. I will work to make sure the site is fully ready. Might get with Dave, and see if we can be ready if we need to bump up more memory, or disk, or an additional CPU or something. We also should audit the DB, to make sure we are caching in a way that works well as the load increases.

I got a lot of this working MUCH better over the last couple of years, but this show can double, tripple or even MORE our 'normal' traffic. Also, these are drive by hits, meaning they have none of the eye candy files (all of the icons', glyphs, corners, etc), so each one of them hits us much harder than a normal user who has been on the site, and their browser has all of these files cached already.

I will also need to make sure that I get my site sucker warning scripts working a little more cleanly, so that if people start to suck HD for offline reading, that we shut them down QUICKLY. One person running a site downloader (like teleport), can make things very slow for the rest of HD users. If we have a LOT of people hitting the site at the same time, it can be horrible for performance.

tim/tickle. Yipppeee!

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Husker Thanks for getting ready for the storm!!

And for all you do everyday ( at least I think you do something everyday )

Thanks Husker!
Yippeeee tim and tickle, not!!

Thanks for keeping us up to speed. Its a pita when the site runs slow. Hard to believe all those people buy into that BS show, like the "star" would actually be running around with a cameraman filming 27 felonies

Thanks Husker fro the work that you do. I don't understand a bit of it, but I'm glad you are here keeping it up and running.

Thanks for keeping the train rolling .

Would a denial of service attack on discovery be wrong? We have 14,000 members, fair is fair right.

rubber duck wrote:Would a denial of service attack on discovery be wrong? We have 14,000 members, fair is fair right.

That's what I'm talking about.

Hate that you guys have to deal with crap like this. But I'm also glad you do. Thanks.

My wife asked if she should DVR it, I said not just no but hell no!

rubber duck wrote:Would a denial of service attack on discovery be wrong? We have 14,000 members, fair is fair right.

Trust me, we are the ones going to get the DOS from the many drive by hits. Our site simply is pretty 'small'. We do not have a huge amount of resources paid for. Our bandwidth is not great, our CPU/memory is very small, etc. It is 'good enough' for the amount of traffic we have. However, when we double, tripple or even more that amount of traffic, and have the site get hit harder than normal for each average access, then what we have shows that it may be under powered.

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.......you sound like Mr. Scott.

Thanks for the heads up and all your hard work Husker.

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.......you sound like Mr. Scott.

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hmmm, anyone know where i can score a few spare dilythium crystals??

You da man Husker....Tim and Tickle

Thanks for the forewarning Husker