266 Users online --- 8/05/02

[KatDiesel]

Just wondering if anyone else noticed it... ... .



anyone experience any problems on the site?



just curious ... ... . seems to be working fine for me.

 

[Bob Wagner]

just like the cummins

hummin right along, been workin perfect

 

[TxDieselKid]

Works great for me, is this a new record?



Andrew

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Kat ... . the Site Slowed down a wicked bit around 10:50 EST When was the "New" Peak?

EDIT: Nevermind I saw the Timestamp of the post.

 

[illflem]

The site slowed to a crawl for me at about the same time also but recovered after about 10 minutes.

 

[Shovelhead]

Kat,

How many were members?

How many visitors?

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Schweet!! I've been waiting for the day that we get a new high for the number of users online. The previous peak was 235 I believe (maybe it was 255). The slowdown that you guys experienced at 10:50 must have been a back bone issue or traffic on the net in general because from 10:40-11:00 our peak CPU usage hit . 48 . Our peak usage last night was at 10:30 when our peak CPU usage hit . 95. That's awesome news because with this being a dual CPU system fully loaded is 2. 0! We are still only running on the one server as well!



I've changed our plans for what we are going to do with the 2nd server too. Originally one server was going to serve the web pages up and the 2nd server was going to be just a database server. Because our loads are so low on the system I am going to setup the 2nd server as a standby server. Right now I have it backing up the main server's database continuously (which contains all the threads, usersnames, etc) and it backs up the web pages nightly at 4:00 am.



I'm going to set it up to monitor the main server every minute and if it can't reach the main server for a 10 minute time period then it will reconfigure itself to become the main server and email myself and Robin to let us know there's a problem with the main server. With this setup, if the main server crashes the longest the site would be down is ~12 minutes. The only way we'd be down longer is if there is a problem at the co-locating facility or an internet backbone problem.



-Steve St. Laurent

Webmaster



P. S. There's no way to tell how many were users and how many were guests after the fact. It generally runs about 60% members/40% guests - based on that ~160 members were online. Also, yesterday there were 817 new posts and 125 new threads!

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Here's a couple more interesting statistics. In the month of July we had 18,521,632 hits (18 MILLION) and the server sent out 103,700,487 KiloBytes of data (103 GIGS)!!! Now that's traffic! All of that with no crashes on the server other than when I accidentally erased all of the messages in the forum - I restored them from the slave server in about 10 minutes and we were back up! #ad

 

[KatDiesel]

Originally posted by Shovelhead

Kat,

How many were members?

How many visitors?

I didn't catch it right away... ... when I saw it, it was around 210 users... ... . and its generally half and half. Half members, half guests.



right now is pretty typical : There are currently 91 members and 99 guests on the board.

 

[Dave MacArthur]

I have a question. I have the feature turned off in my user CP so that my name doesn't show up on the main forums page. Also, I am not being counted among the "Members" although I can post etc without entering my password. If it says "There are currently 10 members and 12 guests on the boards" and I count the names there are 10. That means there could be lots more members on then 10. Am I being counted as a guest? Don't I count?



Thanks,

Dave

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I hadn't thought of that. I'll have to check into it and see if you're counted or not.

 

[KatDiesel]

If you turn the option off in CP... ... .



Adminstrators can see all the users listed if they are logged in.

 

[illflem]

I also have my user name turned off. Once when there were 5 users online 4 were listed as members, I figured the one guest was me.

 

[TPCDrafting]

I'll be the brown noser here and say I think your doing an excellent job, Steve and TDR Staff. Since the new servers have been up and the kinks worked out, this site has been trouble free for me. Thanks, Tim.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

We've come a LONG way baby!!! I was digging through old posts in the website forum reminiscing and came across this one. Some interesting comparisons from then to now:



<table border=1><tr><td>Max users online simultaneously</td><td>266 - 08/05/02</td><td>787 - 03/04/04</td></tr><tr><td>Bandwidth used</td><td>103. 7Gb - July 02</td><td>290. 8Gb - Feb 04</td></tr><tr><td>Total # of users</td><td>12,157 - July 1, 2002</td><td>19,576 - March 10, 2004</td></tr></table>



Pretty wild looking back!

 

[bmoeller]

WOW, you're not kidding. :--)