If it seems like things have been a bit faster around here lately even with 200+ concurrent users moving around on the site then that's because you're right: it IS faster
To complement our recent bandwidth upgrades, we'd decided to upgrade the CPU & memory on the machine, but while that helped, traffic to the site increased by the same amount. So we went full bore and upgraded again to a 1.7Ghz processor, brand spankin new motherboard and doubled the RAM to half a gig. Now we can scarcely keep the CPU busy which is great! We're looking to once again soon here step up the bandwidth yet further and this place will be eye-popping
But we didn't just stop there. We've also upgraded and tuned several key peices of software that are used to deliver this website to bring them to their maximum potential, AND we have continued to give much attention to the coding and HTML that makes up the site to ensure that it is as fast, dependable, and efficient as possible.
And it's all in the name of making sure that InReview remains a great, fun experience for everyone.
just something thats been on my mind for a while... how can you guys afford the bandwith? Is the revenue coming from advertisements really enough to cover the costs?
To upgrade... it states that you must use the email adress that you used when you signed up. I think I used my netscape account originally but, changed it becasue netscape seemed to be having issues. Is there any way around this? I really prefer to use the yahoo account...or is this just a verification process?
Anomaly77 said this in post #3 : To upgrade... it states that you must use the email adress that you used when you signed up. I think I used my netscape account originally but, changed it becasue netscape seemed to be having issues. Is there any way around this? I really prefer to use the yahoo account...or is this just a verification process?
That's exactly right - we want it only for verification.
On another note - and in harmony with Sean's original post in this thread, I feel like mentioning another upgrade we put into effect a few months back.
The server was upgraded to a Dual XEON 2.8ghz with 1GB of RAM utilzing the latest releases (at that time) for Apache/PHP/mySQL and then thoroughly optimized for performance.
The machine could likely work efficiently with a couple thousand users on concurrently (we've had close to 650 on at once).
That said - another upgrade is in order: bandwidth. The cost associated with that, however, is rather expensive and not likely just yet.
03-27-2003 10:22 PM
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