Connection problems

[Austupaio]

Contrary to popular belief, posting about how annoying it is and complaining about it won't make it go away.

Posting here about having the issue is unnecessary, Janus already stated that the server wasn't strong enough to handle the load and that it wouldn't be a problem once the new server is up.

 

[janlulhannes]

Let's look on the bright side, the forum/game is popular 

More scrubs stealing my denars eh

 

[Sheriff-murder]

I have been having this all week. 

 

[hairfree]

I get it occasionally, though, around midnight GMT it keeps me out for about an hour or two...Just like now.

I know it's a pointless whining thread ...Especially since Janus said it'd be checked on.

 

[The Cow Dude]

all that worked in the afternoon (about 3 hours ago) was the home page, the threads kept giving me "connection problems."

 

[Archonsod]

That would be the 800 or so people we had on then.

 

[captain lust]

This heightened activity is hardly surprising, in the weak leading up to release. Especially, so close to GDC.

Hopefully, it'll die down a little, straight after release and we can enjoy the calm before the storm.

 

[Regendur]

I couldn't even refresh to get on eventually 3 hours ago. I was continually shut out.

 

[Archonsod]

Maybe we should ban a few hundred people. That ought to take the pressure off the server

 

[McBeverage]

Hmm.

Would it be possible for you to, say, set up a list of forumites, and then sort them by both postcount and date last active?
And have it so that, for example, if their last online date was, say, before January 2007 and their postcount = 0, then they'd get deleted from the forum?

Or would you have to do such a thing manually?

 

[Elisianthus]

Thing is McB, that's not what's causing the slowdown. It's the active accounts, not the inactive ones.

 

[McBeverage]

Wouldn't it though reduce the amount of bandwidth or whatever needed to sustain such accounts, allowing more to be used by the active ones?

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Keep in mind that I really have no idea what I'm talking about here.

 

[Elisianthus]

To put it simply, the bandwidth is used by accounts that are active, sending requested pages to them and receiving replies etc. The inactive accounts merely sit in the servers harddrive and consume no bandwidth at all, due to not needing to send/receive information to/from them.

 

[McBeverage]

Aah, I see now.

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And feel stupid.

 

[Magorian Aximand]

Maybe we should ban a few hundred people. That ought to take the pressure off the server

Would you like me to compile a list for you?

 

[Sheriff-murder]

Would you like me to compile a list for you?

Noooooooooo!

 

[The Shadow]

Ditto. 

 

[Magorian Aximand]

Well now you're definitely on the list.

 

[captain lust]

I approve of the list.

It's odd that 800 users are online, right now and I've not had a single issue.

 

[Swagg3r]

As expected, the forum's on it's knees again. No surprises as to guessing why...