Now Christopher, don't expect us to buy that. Some of us have been in the computer/IT rodeo for a lot of years. More stuff loads whenever we go in to topic lists... for example, the funcky little bars under everyone's usernames.
Your welcome to do whatever you want to with the information that I am presenting to you.
But the fact of the matter is, last night we saw a load factor on the primary server of 17. And that is NOT coming from the little Mods that have been installed. We have been very careful in selecting only the mods that are NOT highly CPU intensive. MANY of the remaining mods will pound the server and have not been installed for that one reason alone.
This huge load is coming from a SURGE in member activity. We are clearly entering into the "season" and are feeling the pain!
2 weeks ago we were at 7,000 active members.
Now we are at almost 9,000 active, with an average of 2,000 logged on at any given time during the evening.
As I write this, we have just over 1,000 logged into the site at 4:30pm
The other problem is that Harris Publications has many other sites that are all hosted on the same server, as their traffic goes up, we all share the pain.
You might have noticed that the dreaded DATABASE ERROR seems to have disappeared for the most part. It looks like everything we have been working on for the Database server is now beginning to pay off.
Rest assured we are doing all we can to get more server resources dedicated to SnoWest as well.
