Sorry for the pain, we're working on it!
Downtime, uptime..
Sunday, March 12, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Sorry guys that the site has been flakey.
We set up GalCiv2.com to make use of the same database network that WinCustomize has because traditionally, game sites don't get a lot of traffic. However, the game has done far better than we had anticipated (and we were anticipating it would do pretty well). This in turn has increased traffic there far beyond what we had spec'd. Moreover, over this weekend we had a situation that caused Slashdot, Digg, Neowin, Metafilter, and literally over 200 other sites to link to a particular article.
We have new servers on order. One of which is just a total monster. I wish I could have it. Both Raid 1 and Raid 0 on it! SMP 64-bit Dual core. So it should help things. But in the meantime, we're limping along. The current infrastructure was not designed to handle two sites of WinCustomize's traffic levels.
Update: The new servers have arrived. Now we just have to configure them, load them up, and get them up. They're real monsters!
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Reply #22 Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:33 AM
| So Wincustomize was down for a couple of days! |
More accurately 'hours' than 'days'....
Reply #23 Tuesday, March 14, 2006 7:37 AM
If one side takes a hit, I just roll to another.
Reply #24 Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:48 PM
| If, for example this success with the new game leads to new servers, etc then we will all benefit.. |
Monster servers!!!! I would love to know more about that! (I'm a nerd you see...)
Plus I want to know what the statistics were for the site. Digg, Slashdot and other sites going to ONE ARTICLE??? Slashdot alone can shut down a site, but Digg too?
Lets hope JoeUser and WinCustomize benefit from the new super servers. Since everything is interconnected, I don't see why not.
Reply #25 Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:57 PM
You can go here:
https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=161&AID=106741
Click on the referrals and you can see the 500+ sites that linked to just that article. It was crazy.
The main new database server has 6 hard drives in it running both raid 0 and raid 1. It's an SMP Duo Core 64-bit CPU with I think 10 gigabytes of RAM.
Reply #26 Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:01 AM
Thank You!
Reply #27 Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:30 AM
| Ok, yeah...your "Space Game" let me get caught up on laundry....... |
Yebbut, China...I got another house drawing finished, too. This 'downtime' came in handy...
Reply #29 Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:11 PM
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Reply #21 Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:16 AM