Most users ever online was 11,724 on Today, 00:20

[Roger H. Veteran]

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.

[bdsams Veteran]

no, its right now! were at 8k + back up...shes gonna blow!

edit: we just blew threw 9k !

[Roger H. Veteran]

holy crap...

Most users ever online was 10,162 on Today, 22:54

[Mathachew Veteran]

Yay! I halped make Neowin history!

[sundayx Veteran]

Why the surge? From Digg?

[Simon Veteran]

Unfortunately, IPB stopped at 10,162 :(

Sundayx: http://digg.com/hardware/Worst_hard_drive_crash_ever_pics

[Lewism]

Why the surge?

https://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/02/28/n...er-heart-attack

Digg killed us :)

[PricklyPoo]

Hmmm, so that is why the servers were down...

Digg has that much power?

[Roger H. Veteran]

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?

[jamend]

Lol, I looked at the pictures following the Digg link and I didn't even realize I was on Neowin.

[sundayx Veteran]

Cause our fortifications fell...

[Lewism]

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.

[Marshalus Veteran]

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.

[Marshalus Veteran]

Another fun stat. We've nearly doubled out visitor count today, compared to our average for the month.

[Rappy Veteran]

Wow for once Rappy was not the reason :laugh:

Awesome tho!

[Scirwode]

Wow for once Rappy was not the reason :laugh:

Awesome tho!

Says you :p !

Scirwode

[Geranium_Z__NL]

aww man,, thats what u get if u put a picture on Digg... loads of fools just click on it :o

[Berserk87]

hey, theres still 4 more hours to get the number up :p

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

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)

[Roger H. Veteran]

yeah... i saw it went up some more... still getting dugg?

[Marshalus Veteran]

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.

[rage710]

Thats insane. Almost 12,000 people on here...

[Rappy Veteran]

Just watch the Ad Revenue go up :D

But yeah I have never seen it this bad.

[Chosen One]

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

[sundayx Veteran]

Just watch the Ad Revenue go up :D

But yeah I have never seen it this bad.

That cashier sound is so noisy!