Server is too busy!!!

[Paddy]

ahh interesting point Spike...

yet it is my understanding that non-plus members still contribute to the running costs of the site... we have the adverts that the plus members pay not to have

ahh it is all good when the server is working

[Maquiladora]

Did you edit that first post just so you could make another post rather than editing the first one with what you had to add?

No wonder there are problems

>EDIT< (that button next to "reply with quote") that was to dr.spike.

[DrSpike]

No, I edited out a superfluous part.

[Provost Harrison]

It's a downhill slope into a pay only service, and to Markos's 2nd billion

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by DrSpike
No, I edited out a superfluous part.

My potential comment was too easy, so I will not say it.

[Skanky Burns]

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Dauphin

My potential comment was too easy, so I will not say it.

I anticipated such a comeback, but decided to leave it and see what wit people could come up with.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Also I'd add that those not willing to contribute to help the site have the resources to run smoothly are in a bad position to complain when there are problems.

Correct

[Paddy]

oh really Adagio

so all that guff on free subscription blah blah blah, was just blah blah balh to you then

[Adagio]

I would have subscribed anyway... but these 'extra stuff' is nice

[RGBVideo]

Looking at the active threads here it seems they mostly deal with whiney complaints about things that would not be happening to them if they only subscribed. It is the complainers who are sucking up all the bandwidth.

Complaints about something where there is an easy PLUS solution should merit a -1.

So those who are not willing to pay should just stfu if the site suddenly turns into shi'ite?

On-topic: I blame 10k pixel² avatars and ten-line long signatures.

[MarkG]

Sure- it's been busy before. When there's been 500+ members and guests, that is.

Now it's "too busy" dealing with half that amount.

we dont have an issue (anymore) with people simply browsing around the forums. we've got load spikes created by the search-related features.

we're fighting back with reducing the size of the "active posts" sql table. the last two weeks we've gone from 1.4 to 1.1 mil posts, going for 0.8...

[DrSpike]

So, in other words, you have identified the problem, and are using your free time to solve it and continue to provide a valuable service to subscribers and non-subscribers alike?

[Chaunk]

Originally posted by DrSpike
So, in other words, you have identified the problem, and are using your free time to solve it and continue to provide a valuable service to subscribers and non-subscribers alike?

/me sighs

What a guy

[MarkG]

Originally posted by DrSpike
So, in other words, you have identified the problem, and are using your free time to solve it and continue to provide a valuable service to subscribers and non-subscribers alike?

if you mean that i'm spending my saturday between watching all kind of crap and semi-crap on tv, leading greece to the world cup on cm4 and making sure the archiving script runs continuously, yes