Can the GAF servers handle E3?

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Every year the increase the servers capability and every year it gets more popular. So nope.
 
Bad_Boy said:
e3 should be members only day. lurkers can wait :P
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It's funny cause I signed up back in 2009 because I thought when the site was down, it was because it went into a 'member-only' mode. Actually having one might be a good idea though.

I mean it's impossible to read reactions or have any kind of proper discussion with that many people posting at once anyways. Might be better to have people cool off while the announcements are going on and post their impressions after.
 
No.

I swear it struggled for a sec when I tried to comment on that LeBron block in the NBA thread, and that's in off topic community

We ain't ready for E3



Banjo Kazooie 3 will kill gaf tomorrow B^)
 
A lot of youngin's are about to learn what it's really like to experience E3.

Have an IRC page running and plenty of snacks.
 
gaf could handle the load if there was a 3-5 minute delay between posts. wouldnt even have to close the OT side then. this is how ign did it when their boards were super popular and they held strong. 90% of posts during the conferences are spam anyway.
 
Existing servers have been upgraded, and several more temporary servers are operational and linked into the array for E3 week. Given our wildly unprecedented traffic increase lately I can't promise anything, but this is about as prepared as we can be. Load numbers were extremely low during that Konami event with 15k concurrent on, so our breaking point should be very high.

We'll also take the standard measures as necessary: search disabled, off-topic closed, etc. Really, though, those will be drops in the bucket.
 
Fantastic to hear, going to be fascinating tomorrow.
 
EviLore said:
Existing servers have been upgraded, and several more temporary servers are operational and linked into the array for E3 week. Given our wildly unprecedented traffic increase lately I can't promise anything, but this is about as prepared as we can be. Load numbers were extremely low during that Konami event with 15k concurrent on, so our breaking point should be very high.

We'll also take the standard measures as necessary: search disabled, off-topic closed, etc. Really, though, those will be drops in the bucket.
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<3 too fucking amazing. I believe!
 
EviLore said:
Existing servers have been upgraded, and several more temporary servers are operational and linked into the array for E3 week. Given our wildly unprecedented traffic increase lately I can't promise anything, but this is about as prepared as we can be. Load numbers were extremely low during that Konami event with 15k concurrent on, so our breaking point should be very high.

We'll also take the standard measures as necessary: search disabled, off-topic closed, etc. Really, though, those will be drops in the bucket.
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Guessing you wouldn't want to block non-registered users from the site during the conference? Then once over, allow non-registered back onto the site until the next conference starts up?
 
EviLore said:
Existing servers have been upgraded, and several more temporary servers are operational and linked into the array for E3 week. Given our wildly unprecedented traffic increase lately I can't promise anything, but this is about as prepared as we can be. Load numbers were extremely low during that Konami event with 15k concurrent on, so our breaking point should be very high.

We'll also take the standard measures as necessary: search disabled, off-topic closed, etc. Really, though, those will be drops in the bucket.
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here's hoping we make it through the conferences tomorrow

the threads will be moving crazy fast if the servers can handle the load
 
Not that I know exactly their setup, but what would make sense is members actually posting a shitton being the problem. Nonmembers shouldn't add significant load, they aren't dynamic, you can show a slightly older version of the site since they can't change anything.

So really, go to the irc channel. I would think it'd be smart to up the time between posts to two minutes instead of one though. But maybe that'd piss people off :P.
 
EviLore said:
Existing servers have been upgraded, and several more temporary servers are operational and linked into the array for E3 week. Given our wildly unprecedented traffic increase lately I can't promise anything, but this is about as prepared as we can be. Load numbers were extremely low during that Konami event with 15k concurrent on, so our breaking point should be very high.

We'll also take the standard measures as necessary: search disabled, off-topic closed, etc. Really, though, those will be drops in the bucket.
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Great news!
 
Dragon said:
Not that I know exactly their setup, but what would make sense is members actually posting a shitton being the problem. Nonmembers shouldn't add significant load, they aren't dynamic, you can show a slightly older version of the site since they can't change anything.

So really, go to the irc channel. I would think it'd be smart to up the time between posts to two minutes instead of one though. But maybe that'd piss people off :P.
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Good point.

Are there any measures to limit the number of posts you can make?

Like, one post every 10 minutes instead of every minute.

Not sure if that would help at all. Would be frustrating for some, I'm sure.
 
Even if they work no one can read 50 posts per second, keeping up to date with the "xbox policy" thread was hard enough, e3 will be nuts.
 
zephervack said:
Even if they work no one can read 50 posts per second, keeping up to date with the "xbox policy" thread was hard enough, e3 will be nuts.
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Yeah I never even saw that thread :P. Came back from Governor's Ball and bam all this news!

dummydecoy said:
During the PS Meeting when GAF was offline, there was only one person on the tinyGAF channel. Don't we use that anymore?
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They should really publicize the irc connection info but I'm not sure they want to give that out to everyone for whatever reason. I just don't see a way for GAF to keep up considering new console launches and the uptick in traffic. I hope I'm wrong (I usually am!).
 
EviLore said:
Existing servers have been upgraded, and several more temporary servers are operational and linked into the array for E3 week. Given our wildly unprecedented traffic increase lately I can't promise anything, but this is about as prepared as we can be. Load numbers were extremely low during that Konami event with 15k concurrent on, so our breaking point should be very high.

We'll also take the standard measures as necessary: search disabled, off-topic closed, etc. Really, though, those will be drops in the bucket.
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Has you considered utilizing the infinite power of the cloud, Evilore?
 
EviLore said:
Existing servers have been upgraded, and several more temporary servers are operational and linked into the array for E3 week. Given our wildly unprecedented traffic increase lately I can't promise anything, but this is about as prepared as we can be. Load numbers were extremely low during that Konami event with 15k concurrent on, so our breaking point should be very high.

We'll also take the standard measures as necessary: search disabled, off-topic closed, etc. Really, though, those will be drops in the bucket.
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How come you don't disable images? Doesn't that take up a buttload of bandwidth?

I know nothing about this sort of thing, btw.
 
DaBoss said:
Images aren't hosted on GAF servers so it takes up no bandwidth.
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I think he's talking about avatars, which certainly have a neogaf.com URL attached to them and are served through php (even if they're cached for a shitload of time).

Cache-control:max-age=31536000 (which is a year btw).

Edit: No you're right, I read that wrong. Too eager to share what meager knowledge I have.
 
EviLore said:
Existing servers have been upgraded, and several more temporary servers are operational and linked into the array for E3 week. Given our wildly unprecedented traffic increase lately I can't promise anything, but this is about as prepared as we can be. Load numbers were extremely low during that Konami event with 15k concurrent on, so our breaking point should be very high.

We'll also take the standard measures as necessary: search disabled, off-topic closed, etc. Really, though, those will be drops in the bucket.
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But but but...Stump said not a chance you would close OT...

What about your OT brethren Evil... you're letting us down..


:(
 
If search/post history is really just a drop in the bucket it would be pretty sweet if it could be kept, it's GAF's best feature! So so so so useful.
 
EviLore said:
Existing servers have been upgraded, and several more temporary servers are operational and linked into the array for E3 week. Given our wildly unprecedented traffic increase lately I can't promise anything, but this is about as prepared as we can be. Load numbers were extremely low during that Konami event with 15k concurrent on, so our breaking point should be very high.

We'll also take the standard measures as necessary: search disabled, off-topic closed, etc. Really, though, those will be drops in the bucket.
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Thanks for doing your best!
 
MrToughPants said:
But but but...Stump said not a chance you would close OT...

What about your OT brethren Evil... you're letting us down..

:(
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That's not what I said--I made it clear that there are other options that contribute more to load that would be disabled first, and it's unlikely that it'd get to the point where OT would need to be closed. Which is still the case. When 20,000 people are viewing gaming and 2,000 viewing OT, OT is not the major thing causing server load. :p
 
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