OMG.!! I pride myself on not blaming the refs, but WOW, that was way out of control.
Refs were in the bag to at least keep it close. Never seen it so obvious. The league needs to look into it.
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That's the Redskins official forum so I'm sure their hardware is great. Daniel Snyder has big pockets
Ian, please stop apologizing. Thanks for all you do. Any chance we can help out with more than the Membership Fees?
Something like a tiered membership? Something like:
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I know if I had the money spare I'd gladly chip in and when some does become available I'll be donating.
2280 posts and because you have access issues you want to donate now?Why did this forum not accessible? Yes, I know there was definitely many people trying to log on, but I am interested to know what why this website could not handle it?
It is money issue? I can chip in big time if it is a money issue.
2280 posts and because you have access issues you want to donate now?
why not before because your happy to be here.
Same goes for others who don't donate ...step up ...
We have a class forum with a class owner in Ian ... top notch always and he brings effort ... lots of effort and devotion to keeping it first rate.
This forum has been crumbling consistently in big games (kind of like the Falcons). Its usually not for the entire game like today but there are times where the forums been down for a good quater. Maybe its for the better because there was certainly a period of time where I probably wouldn't have wanted to read what was going on here.
Ian, I might suggest that you also talk to someone beyond your current host. Your current host is not going to tell you how to get to the cloud (Amazon AWS , etc). They will sell you what they have. You could build something on AWS that would scale seamlessly (balancer spinning up new server instances). You could expand and contract based on near term demand.
I haven't looked at how vbulletin would play, but the point is that current host isn't the only conversation to have.
You've got a great board. It's an asset that can attract capital if you're worried about raising the dough to invest in the site.
Ian - On a different note, please let the data center know that they need to have someone monitoring the system next Sunday from 5pm to 10pm EST..
Why did this forum not accessible? Yes, I know there was definitely many people trying to log on, but I am interested to know what why this website could not handle it?
It is money issue? I can chip in big time if it is a money issue.
LOL - way ahead of you
Oddly enough I've thought about that but from what research I have done, I've found that moving to that type of hosting would be even costlier than what I currently spend, not to mention the magnitude of data that would need to be moved and the costs involved in doing that. But I agree eventually that's what I'd like to do - although Amazon crashed Netflix last week so nothing is 100% .
Ian,
I'm sure a lot of members have relevant technical expertise. If you shared some details, such as what you spend and what some of the usage metrics are, they might have ideas.
True. Nothing is 100%. That said i dont think the AWS crash was from load. But it's moot. The load you get here is not going to be a problem. That's a fundamental difference. You are pegging your architecture (maxing it) and to solve it you will buy capacity that sits idle 99% of the time...
Regarding costs... Yes it will be costly. It probably wont get cheaper down the road.
I'm not the guy (but know some people who could be) I think the most pertinent data will be throughput (bandwidth) logged during the time around failure and some record of simultaneous sessions (max) up to the fail point. If your host can't get you that data ask them why. I have more experience with IIS but could ask around for tools for LAMP. PM me if you want to talk. Otherwise good luck and thanks for the site.