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Inventive Software
13th February 2007, 22:56
I found something rather disturbing when I finally got onto Doom9's forums at around 9.30pm GMT. There were about 1400 people viewing the Decrypting forum alone!

Now it's with increasing frequency that the Doom9 forums are being brought to a halt because "The server is too busy. Please try later."

Is it possible just one sub-forum is drawing enough traffic to grind this place to a halt at peak times? If so, is it possible to move said sub-forum to it's own server where it'll be better equipped to handle the large traffic. Or, move the other less-traffic forums to a different server, whichever's better logistically.
smiller667
13th February 2007, 23:45
The forum was recently down due to moving to a new server. Since then, I haven't noticed any slowdowns or downtimes ... it actually feels much more responsive than previously.

Steve
nickolasemp
14th February 2007, 00:57
Not Found

The requested URL /right.html was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.59 (FreeBSD) PHP/4.4.4 with Suhosin-Patch DAV/2 SVN/1.3.1 Server at www.doom9.org Port 80

I've been seeing a lot of this lately.Is it due to this decrypting forum?
enantiomer
14th February 2007, 01:43
The news about discovering the AACS processing key finally broke on slashdot today.
foxyshadis
14th February 2007, 02:03
I've been seeing a lot of this lately.Is it due to this decrypting forum?

See http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121721

I've seen a lot of "too busy"s this morning, after it was moved back, but it'll pass soon. (Thankfully it wasn't on the temporary server when the news broke.)
Mr_Odwin
14th February 2007, 10:12
I've had several "too busy"s also. Today when I logged onto the internet I saw this on my personal google page:

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/02/the_new_hddvdbl.html

There are several links to the forum given. I'd expect this sort of linking is going on elsewhere too.
Shinigami-Sama
14th February 2007, 20:50
I get a lot of to busy as well - when I'm trying to do something rather than browsing lol

I know I personaly link to the main page heavily, but news pages beat user links down lol
Doom9
14th February 2007, 21:07
well.. this should give you some thoughts about the hosting situation.. we still haven't found a new home for the forum and the clock is steadily ticking down...
kmac61
14th February 2007, 22:14
well.. this should give you some thoughts about the hosting situation.. we still haven't found a new home for the forum and the clock is steadily ticking down...
If it's a matter of funds i'd be happy to contribute a set amount per month as would alot of members (I'd hope)
Sharktooth
15th February 2007, 14:58
@doom9: make a clearly visible announcement on the home page and on the forum.
Doom9
16th February 2007, 00:08
I never got a too busy message from my own place.. but I just got one from hotmail so it happens to the best of us.
Booji Boy
21st February 2007, 00:47
The forum was not available until a few minutes ago... database error:

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/9738/doom9errec6.png

Does this also happen from time to time?