Roger H. Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 Hmm... no wonder boards were offline!! Hit a new record i guess.... time to upgrade those servers! Edit - awww man, can't delete. Sorry... had to CTRL + F5 and then i saw it on the frontpage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdsams Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 no, its right now! were at 8k + back up...shes gonna blow! edit: we just blew threw 9k ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Author Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 holy crap... Most users ever online was 10,162 on Today, 22:54 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathachew Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 Yay! I halped make Neowin history! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundayx Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 Why the surge? From Digg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 Unfortunately, IPB stopped at 10,162 :( Sundayx: http://digg.com/hardware/Worst_hard_drive_crash_ever_pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewism Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Why the surge? https://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/02/28/n...er-heart-attack Digg killed us :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PricklyPoo Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Hmmm, so that is why the servers were down... Digg has that much power? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Author Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 Unfortunately, IPB stopped at 10,162 :( Sundayx: http://digg.com/hardware/Worst_hard_drive_crash_ever_pics Oh, so wait... it's more than that? Wonder why it stopped there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamend Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Lol, I looked at the pictures following the Digg link and I didn't even realize I was on Neowin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundayx Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 Cause our fortifications fell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewism Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Oh, so wait... it's more than that? Wonder why it stopped there? You are now redirected the news post on the front page when you want to see the topic, so it stopped it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshalus Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 I did it, I finally crashed Neowin! (and I didn't have to use my root server account either) There are actually far more then 10,000 on right now, but the front page doesn't add to the forum counter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshalus Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 Another fun stat. We've nearly doubled out visitor count today, compared to our average for the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 Wow for once Rappy was not the reason :laugh: Awesome tho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scirwode Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Wow for once Rappy was not the reason :laugh:Awesome tho! Says you :p ! Scirwode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geranium_Z__NL Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 aww man,, thats what u get if u put a picture on Digg... loads of fools just click on it :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berserk87 Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 hey, theres still 4 more hours to get the number up :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas-c Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 been beaten ;) ... 11,724 has been slowly raising exactly 20k would be cool :p 12k is more realistic tho (i mean, 10k broke neowinz for a little while :p) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Author Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 yeah... i saw it went up some more... still getting dugg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshalus Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 We have been switching back and forth between directing traffic to the front page and the forum post to experiment with how much load we can sustain. 11k seems to be about the limit for the forums. The front page code is much lighter and can easily handle the pressure. We've never had any other period where we could do this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rage710 Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Thats insane. Almost 12,000 people on here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 Just watch the Ad Revenue go up :D But yeah I have never seen it this bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chosen One Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 I remember seeing the forum about the blown up hard drive when it was first created and then on Digg and then a few hours later poof neowin is down lol.. Maybe there will be mention of us on AOTS lol on G4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundayx Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 Just watch the Ad Revenue go up :DBut yeah I have never seen it this bad. That cashier sound is so noisy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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