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12-15-2005, 12:06 PM
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#1 | | Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 5,242
| Record Traffic + Slow CC Site = Another Upgrade
We're aware that during late afternoon/evening (EST) hours for the last few days, our page load time has been unpleasantly long. Despite our addition of another powerful server last month (in anticipation of this surge), we are seeing record traffic levels that are stressing even our greatly improved configuration. So, our server experts will be doing a hardware upgrade and some additional configuration changes to improve our response time. Downtime should be minimal and occur at an off-hour (for US members).
Sorry about the slowness at peak times, and thanks for your support and patience!
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12-15-2005, 12:21 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: VA
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It's alright, you all are doing a great job, thanks for keepin it up  | |
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12-15-2005, 12:47 PM
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#3 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Texas
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Soaring traffic? I am not surprised. Low percentages of applicants admitted to their chosen colleges plus high levels of angst on the part of both sudents and parents equates to a record level of traffic on this site. Some of our aspiring MIT'ers should be able to do an equation that expresses these variables!
In any case, many thanks for the dedicated attempted to keep up with the crush of posters.
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12-15-2005, 03:27 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
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it's because vBulletin sucks... it's completely using eval() and stresses the server.
you need to optimize mysql by adding mysql indexes to many vBulletin tables so the queries take less time.
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12-15-2005, 03:32 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: EastCoast in Halls of Ivy
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So.......do higher click numbers mean higher revenue for you guys? Tell us something that is good about the crush. I am happy for you and had a feeling when I saw the slowness creeping back that you had reached warp speed again......popularity is killing you huh? Hang tough.
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12-15-2005, 05:13 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Houston
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So, did everyone hear from Cornell...I got deferred...I'm sad about, but oh well, I've put in many other apps...Northwestern, Stanford, Emory, Duke, Princeton,etc.
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12-15-2005, 05:18 PM
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#7 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Houston
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So, did everyone hear from Cornell...I got deferred...I'm sad about it, but oh well, I've put in many other apps...Northwestern, Stanford, Emory, Duke, Princeton,etc.
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12-15-2005, 09:52 PM
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#8 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: SE Mass
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Recommendation for next year;
Gear up for 10X increase in volume.
CC is the single most valuable resource of incredibly insight and depth of information on the web for both college bound students and parents.
I have learned enough from CC to write a book!
You can quote me.
RS
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12-15-2005, 11:20 PM
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#9 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: MA
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Some of our aspiring MIT'ers should be able to do an equation that expresses these variables!
| Maybe better than MIT's own IT dept. Their servers crashed the weekend before EA deadline. Quote: |
we are seeing record traffic levels that are stressing even our greatly improved configuration
| Is this why you have also disabled searching?? 
Oops...found your answer here: Site Search Temporarily Down
Last edited by Dad2B'2010; 12-15-2005 at 11:28 PM.
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