Site not loading due to viewer influx?

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I haven't been able to get on the site for the last hour, maybe more. Even now I keep getting database errors. There were only 2500 people viewing the forum at the time so not sure what is up.
 
"Only" 2500? We're getting crushed.
 
You're correct, it's user overload.
Bookmark gtplanet.org for information if you can't get onto gtplanet.net, or check out the gtplanet facebook page.
 
Jordan
"Only" 2500? We're getting crushed.
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With 140k members I assumed the site could handle 2,500. Didn't mean to sound like 2500 is nothing.
GTPLANET.org mentions nothing of today's problems.
 
I was following gtplanet on twitter. Good of a place as any to see what's up. Sorry we broke the site Jordan ;)
 
Jordan
"Only" 2500? We're getting crushed.
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The forum user count at the bottom of the main forum page says that the most users active record is around 7,5xx online at a time. Just wondering why are we getting crused with only around a third of that previously established record?
 
Jordan
"Only" 2500? We're getting crushed.
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Just wondering, how did we ever manage to reach the 7000 odd record all those years back (I was there that night!) if we are getting overloaded under 3000? Was the internet just in a simpler state?

Robin.
 
dave_sz
With 140k members I assumed the site could handle 2,500. Didn't mean to sound like 2500 is nothing.
GTPLANET.org mentions nothing of today's problems.
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Unfortunately, no, that's not the case. Also, sorry for the lack of updates on .org - I was too busy trying to fix the problem to type up anything there and will typically only use it if I expect the site to be offline for an extended period of time. For reports on intermittent issues, check Twitter.

Coxis
The forum user count at the bottom of the main forum page says that the most users active record is around 7,5xx online at a time. Just wondering why are we getting crused with only around a third of that previously established record?
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Robin.
Just wondering, how did we ever manage to reach the 7000 odd record all those years back (I was there that night!) if we are getting overloaded under 3000? Was the internet just in a simpler state?

Robin.
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The record was set when M5Power's encounter with Ralph Lauren became extremely popular on Digg.com.

To understand how the server was able to withstand this, consider what it was basically doing: grabbing the same posts from Doug's thread over and over again. These posts were not changing and did not need to be updated in the database, so the cache stayed fresh in the server's RAM and it didn't have to go back to the hard drive for fresh data (computationally expensive and slow). Contrast that with what happened today, when we had thousands of people loading thousands of different pages across the entire site, including the news blog (also database-driven). The volume of unique dynamic pages which had to be generated completely saturated the RAM and swap space, and once that's gone, the server is effectively paralyzed.
 
And aren't you also either barely meeting the cost for keeping these forums running, or losing money on them?

What I mean is, you aren't getting enough money for bigger and better servers, or at least, you normally don't need them.
 
Do you have any plans for temporarily handling the huge traffic on November 2nd, or are you just going to hope for the best? (How many users are on the site on release dates, anyway?)
 
We are going to get hit hard on November 2nd :(.

Just wondering, what sort of specifications are the computers running GTP?
 
Sorry for the double but is it just me or is this site loading REALLY slowly. This site never loads so slowly, the main forum page is actually loading sub forum by subforum, very slow on my end.

What about your end guys?
 
@ Legendary, mines been ok for the past 30 mins or so since I woke up, so if you're still experiencing slow down then it's likely your end.
 
Still being the key word there.

I am fine now, it could have been my end but it was like that this morning too (but that cause is much more obvious). All is well :)
 
I'm curious Jordan, what did we get up to yesterday just before the site got 'paralyzed'?

Jerome
 
Jump_Ace
I'm curious Jordan, what did we get up to yesterday just before the site got 'paralyzed'?

Jerome
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I think I was looking at very close, if not over 3000 people on the site.
 
I remember that we got up to 2875 people. If it will(most likely though) crash badly because of GT5 release then we will need to get better servers. I can't even imagine the costs to maintain this site already.
 
According to the forum our "high score" was 7500 back in 2007. Wonder if we can beat that when GT5 is released...

EDIT didnt see reasoning behind mentioned high score..
 
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Jordan
The record was set when M5Power's encounter with Ralph Lauren became extremely popular on Digg.com.

To understand how the server was able to withstand this, consider what it was basically doing: grabbing the same posts from Doug's thread over and over again. These posts were not changing and did not need to be updated in the database, so the cache stayed fresh in the server's RAM and it didn't have to go back to the hard drive for fresh data (computationally expensive and slow). Contrast that with what happened today, when we had thousands of people loading thousands of different pages across the entire site, including the news blog (also database-driven). The volume of unique dynamic pages which had to be generated completely saturated the RAM and swap space, and once that's gone, the server is effectively paralyzed.
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I thought it had something to do with it just being one thread, but this explanation is great. 👍
 

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