FalsettoVibe
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This might be a good idea...
Can the GAF servers handle E3?
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This might be a good idea...
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Probably EvilLore should think of cloud hosting.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Yes
Zombie James
Banned
I often wonder why GAF hasn't moved to cloud servers where they can dynamically scale based on demand. Might even be cheaper than hosting and maintaining their own servers.
twisteddeeds
Member
Yeah Neogaf with the cloud 40x more powaaaaaaaaaa
RaySpencer
Member
No avatars, no search, no OT.
GAF is always bad during the press conferences at E3, but its usually not down for too long.
GAF is always bad during the press conferences at E3, but its usually not down for too long.
No, NeoGAF is not in the cloud. Unfortunately "cloud" is often interpreted only as a synonym for "online," but that's not the concept. Neogaf evidently runs on a dedicated server; it could indeed benefit greatly from moving to a cloud platform, and would in that case never go down again (unless the cloud-hosting company shuts it down for consuming too many resources beyond its licensing or payment; but the inherent server limits would be gone). But I don't believe the old vBulletin system NeoGAF is built upon can be run on anything but a traditional, dedicated host, so not much to be done.
Karak
Member
Already got the twitch channel we used for the MS reveal ready! We are gonna have a blast!
http://www.twitch.tv/angrycentaur
It was a damn epic time during the MS reveal.
http://www.twitch.tv/angrycentaur
It was a damn epic time during the MS reveal.
Grampa Simpson
Banned
I'm damn curious myself. I work for a company that does highly available scale-out databases that run on aws, and lots of the errors I see have to do with database overloading.
There are more guests than members. Disabling that would just be stupid.
PenaltyMan
Member
I have my backup bags of Doritos and a copy of a George Carlin CD to make sure I maintain the proper levels of cynicism sans the GAF
More stupid than taking the whole site down for 4 hours... I disagree... at least it would be functioning for someone.
That should make Gaf run 40 times faster at least.
weekend_warrior
Banned
I'm preparing for GAF to to be down days before and after E3.
We need to be sure to set up IRC channels.
We need to be sure to set up IRC channels.
Aeriscloud
Banned
This is why I'm using the cloud.
Oooh never saw that.
Jesus Christ 36k during the Xbone event.
Peak at last year's E3 was 22k. GAF is growing FAST!
Zoramon089
Banned
I think during E3 lurkers can't access the site so it's not necessarily comparable
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Evilore, cover your eyes
YES, EMPHATICALLY YES.
Evilore knows what he must do.
Summon the "512GB GDDR5 128 core Xeon piggibacked by the 300,000 servers on Xbone" servers for exponential gains in GAF performance!
YES, EMPHATICALLY YES.
Evilore knows what he must do.
Summon the "512GB GDDR5 128 core Xeon piggibacked by the 300,000 servers on Xbone" servers for exponential gains in GAF performance!
need4speed
Banned
I think its more like everybody's by the lunch table, but nobody can talk.
For extra GAF content and experiences.
Zen_Arcade
Banned
This thing went down during the Nintendo Direct where practically all they did was outline games we already knew were coming this summer.
GAF is going to go down like the fucking Hindenburg during E3.
GAF is going to go down like the fucking Hindenburg during E3.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
Does anyone still have the URL for that neogaf backup forum?
I just log onto the chat and a few other GAF related forums (OA, EB, etc)
I just log onto the chat and a few other GAF related forums (OA, EB, etc)
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
Hell, it went down multiple times during the week of the Boston bombings, and that wasn't even gaming related.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I could be wrong but I don't know if the guys disabled avatars and other measures to reduce server load. I know for a bit there we didn't have the "Who quoted me" feature so I'm sure they will take everything down minus the ability to read threads if need be lol
Hopefully they are ready because we have 2 big conferences and Nintendo directs alongside Apple doing it's thing. I fear for Gromph
tiggerkiddo
Member
It can barely survive Nintendo Directs...if I'm on vacation, I'll either just wait until the evening /night when everything has cooled down a little or just wait until E3 is over. If I'm working, I'll just take a book or something for work during breaks haha.
toddhunter
Member
I don't understand why there would be an issue.
My internet always works perfectly and I haven't had a real outage in years. So why would I have any trouble getting onto GAF?
People are over reacting to this whole thing.
My internet always works perfectly and I haven't had a real outage in years. So why would I have any trouble getting onto GAF?
People are over reacting to this whole thing.
I see what you did there. If it goes down it is not the end of the world.
No, they can. I was a lurker for last E3 here on GAF before I made an account. Could see all of GAF. But I do believe server caching was turned on so everything lagged by 5 minutes for those of us who were not logged in to reduce server load.
Chet Rippo
Member
They will probably shut down everything but the gaming side and turn off avatars.
MisterRoboto
Member
If your going to be on the road..Twitter is probably your best bet. I'm sure IGN or someone will be live tweeting updates.
ImpassionateGods
Member
I hope not. I've lurked here for a while, and E3 discussion on other message boards doesn't even come close.
Syph Medwes
Member
So with the cloud...we are the cloud?
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