Originally posted by William
We were hammered by real traffic this day.

Here's the tale of the day (these are graphis of active concurrent connections):

Where you can see that we were hit with some massive traffic. And if you look at the weekly graph below:

You seel that this is something very new and massive.

After watching TCP packets come into the machine, and putting a "watch" on the website log file for ATS, it became clear that this is real traffic, and not some DOS attack. People are trying to read what we have to say... by far, the post popular page is "viewthread" which shows the content of posts.

I've been forced to reconfigure this page to limit the amount of information guests can see. What this means is that guests now only see your username, and post content. They no longer see your great profile colors, backgrounds, avatars, and moods. I did this to keep these perks intact for our members, so that none of the services you enjoy are lost.

As soon as I did this, server load went down by about 30%, while traffic continued to be high. This should mean that more people will be able to come to ATS, and performance should improve. However... in my experience, what will probably happen is that even more people will come, now that performance allows more users, and we'll be in this type of performance problem in another few weeks. The price of glory.


deny ignorance.


[Edited on 17-9-2003 by William]

[Edited on 18-9-2003 by William]