Server too busy

[ToSeek]

First time I've ever gotten this message (several times about five minutes ago):

The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later.

[NEOWatcher]

Originally Posted by ToSeek

First time I've ever gotten this message (several times about five minutes ago):

I've gotten it before, but it was always refreshable or very short lived. Not like this one where it was a bit more persistant.

Might be because of the current CT activity.
West coasters getting in at Noon? It did degrade pretty quick.

[R.A.F.]

Yeah...I got it too...caused me to lose a post, darn it.

[Fraser]

You guys never miss a thing. I was experimenting with a setting on the server makes it deny requests if the server load gets too high. I'll move that limit higher. This will stop it from completely crashing if thing get overloaded.

[Doctor Know]

When I ran into it, I got a page stating that a message had been dispatched informing the site's hosts of this error. Never seen that happen before.

[Tucson_Tim]

Didn't want to start a new thread in this section due to the reaction to my previous thread.

I've experienced awful response time this morning for the last couple of hours. No "Server Busy" messages - just bad response time.

[NEOWatcher]

Originally Posted by Tucson_Tim

I've experienced awful response time this morning for the last couple of hours. No "Server Busy" messages - just bad response time.

Me too. But; only the last hour (give or take) has been noticeable, and the last 20-30 minutes has been painful.

[Tucson_Tim]

Originally Posted by NEOWatcher

Me too. But; only the last hour (give or take) has been noticeable, and the last 20-30 minutes has been painful.

Yeah, that's probably closer to the correct time span.

[Fraser]

Bad Astronomy has two stories on the homepage of Digg.

[Tucson_Tim]

Originally Posted by Fraser

Bad Astronomy has two stories on the homepage of Digg.

I hate to seem ignorant too many times each day but Fraser, could you please explain? "homepage of Digg"?

[NEOWatcher]

Originally Posted by Tucson_Tim

I hate to seem ignorant too many times each day but Fraser, could you please explain? "homepage of Digg"?

How about if I ask the question instead?

[ToSeek]

Originally Posted by Tucson_Tim

I hate to seem ignorant too many times each day but Fraser, could you please explain? "homepage of Digg"?

Digg: http://digg.com/

Users vote on web links that merit showing up on Digg and then visit the ones that are most voted for, so if one does make the cut, it will get many more hits than would otherwise be expected.

[Fazor]

Okay this is sort of off-topic, but that's what I'm best at. Anyway, I always thought that gaining web-hits was a great thing--then I started to realize that if you get too many, that can be a very bad thing...at least from a hardware standpoint. Now most (good) sites aim to have the server handle typical to slightly higher than typical usage. I.e., you wouldn't dedicate enough server-power to host 4 million simultaneous hits if you're average was around 400 hits.

Then there's sites like Digg that do a great service in getting recognition for noteworthy websites and articles. That's awsome. But the server load it causes seems like it's a huge burden, not just for say BAUT, but for many of the sites they feature. Wouldn't it be better to have a service such a digg with it's own servers set to handle that kind of traffic, then just host a copy of the page/article with proper mention/links to the site of origin?

Granted, I don't think anyone wants to be stuck being the guy who needs the huge server farm. But I would think that approach would keep the burden more on one steady source rather than shifting it from site to site. Seems like it would be easier to handle that way. Just my 2 cents.

[01101001]

Originally Posted by Fraser

Bad Astronomy has two stories on the homepage of Digg.

Sue 'em!

(I know, fresh eyeballs are good to have. I hope it generates some dollars, if indirectly, for management, some of which can be rolled back into the endeavor. In the meantime, my peaceful enjoyment of BAUT is suffering. Bad. No, I was right in the first place. Sue 'em!)

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Apologies if I double posted. The first submit attempt went belly up. Maybe the server was too busy...

[Fraser]

We're working to move Bad Astronomy off this server and onto a dedicated server of its very own. This'll probably happen in the next week, and then the forum load should settle out nicely.

[Fazor]

Well congradulations; having one's own dedicated server has got to be a nice milestone. Perhapse you could see to it that there was a little extra horsepower so we can run our BAUT dedicated Counter-Strike: Source server...uhm, you know, for educational purposes.

[Tucson_Tim]

Not sure if this is related but opening my Buddy List is very painful. It locks up the IE browser for 30 seconds sometimes.

EDIT: Just noticed that opening the "more smilies" has the same effect.

Tim