Anti-Server-Load Measures

[DeepO]

Maybe we need more pop-ups, so Mark can buy a bigger server?

DeepO

[FrustratedPoet]

The news bar in the top-right corner of the screen has disappeared.

Is this a load-reduction strategy? Or a forum bug? Or what?

[FrustratedPoet]

double post. sorry.

[SpencerH]

Whats causing the problem anyway? Too many people, too much stuff, bad server? Just curious

[MarkG]

Whats causing the problem anyway?

increased traffic.

[Martin Gühmann]

Is the number of current users and guest on the forums also very server intensive, I noticed it vanished from the forum front page, too. Actual this piece of information is actual for every user very valuable to have an idea of the current traffic. I think there is no need to recod this number everytime when the page is loaded, maybe intervalls of one up to five minutes is ok.

-Martin

[Skanky Burns]

Do we know when this increased traffic is going to ease off?

[Dauphin]

When people stop coming here.

[alva]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
When people stop coming here.

You did law school, didn't you j/k

Hey mark, whatever it takes to keep going
If there anything we can do (except stop coming here offcurse )

- drop the avatars
- drop the sigs
(why am I trying to tell you something, you're MUCH better at??? )

[Rasbelin]

Drop the avatars? Drop the sigs?!? Drop all the fun.



Alva, feel free to volunteer and drop all the gadgets.

[Urban Ranger]

Maybe to shut off the chat room after a certain level of load?

[Gramphos]

What about the country hack optimization I did for the memberlist? Why isn't it listed? I do believe that 4 minustes SQL queries did take on the server load.

[Sirotnikov]

I would also reaffirm an idea I saw here:

Instead of simple "high traffic load" messages, why not spice it up with: "why not visit this page" with references to Apolyton's non-forum pages, and news items.


If I see the forum is loaded, and then suddenly I notice an interesting news item in the "busy" page - I'd be happy to go visit it.

[jdd2007]

i think thats a good idea Siro

but i have a huge complaint. why, all of a sudden does it take 10 minutes to load a page? this never happened before, and has nothing to do with my internet. i cannot surf the forums at all. it never took anywhere near this long before! people are replying to threads at a normal rate it seems too, and i can hardly access them. one day, its fine: 3 seconds to load a page. next day, this page, even though i just pressed the back button, took THREE HUNDRED FIVE seconds. what happened here? i remember it just showed a simple 'server is busy' and we could post normally 5 minutes later

just curious, im not angry or anything.

[MarkG]

removed

- Above a load level, guests will see a text version of threads instead of the full layout

added

- Cache system implemented: guests will see cached versions of the forum index, forum display and thread display pages. Cache is updated every 5 minutes for the first two page types, and every 10 minutes for the last. Obviously, these pages may not show the latest data and feature like new posts and readed thread indications will not work