We apologize for getting caught with our pants down today, but our friends at Digg and Reddit have been slamming our forum with traffic over the last few hours. Our servers buckled under the pressure, but it's hard to survive the Digg wave, especially when we get a pretty heavy level of traffic on a normal day for our servers. (Our traffic load today is almost twice our daily average, and we've blown away our concurrent user load record away by nearly tripling it.)
Yesterday myself and two of my co-workers took apart an old hard drive that we found in a stack that were being sent off to be destroyed. The drive was an 8GB Quantum Fireball that had a nasty rattle to it. Since we'd never heard anything this bad coming out of a hard drive we decided to open it up and see what was causing it. To our amazement the drive looked like it lived up to its Fireball name.
So here are the photographs you've probably come here looking for. Again, we apologize for the inability to reach the site. Our Developers did their best to get everything back up as quickly as possible.
Fried Hard Drive: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Yesterday myself and two of my co-workers took apart an old hard drive that we found in a stack that were being sent off to be destroyed. The drive was an 8GB Quantum Fireball that had a nasty rattle to it. Since we'd never heard anything this bad coming out of a hard drive we decided to open it up and see what was causing it. To our amazement the drive looked like it lived up to its Fireball name.
So here are the photographs you've probably come here looking for. Again, we apologize for the inability to reach the site. Our Developers did their best to get everything back up as quickly as possible.
Fried Hard Drive: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
SHES GONNA BLOW!
Poor little hamsters
If this continues, we will have the pictures of a 2nd hard drive
Damn happened again, whenever i get the board message (server too busy) my IE locks up... LOL
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=622583
That's the thread.
Damn happened again, whenever i get the board message (server too busy) my IE locks up... LOL
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=622583
That's the thread.
I was having that problem to, browser locking up trying to go to Neowin. Why was the Neowin busy page causing that?....
mm mm good !
I'm also curious as to how neowin is setup? 2 MySQL servers on a cluster/replication? And 2 Apache nodes on a load balancer?
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. We have never been slammed on this level before, not at this level, at least not in recent memory.
I am sure the developers will be making adjustments as needed.
Craig
Gotta love & hate digg
Love because it MIGHT bring more knowledgeable users to teh community...
hate.. well them damn hamsters are getting too fat to be DIGGing...
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=622101
This happpened (date of thread creation) 2 days ago. And its posted now like its something new and related to Neowin (the OP in that thread said that it happened where he works)
Not flaming, just pointing it out
We had to put something on the front page to redirect to because the load on the forums as so intense.
Oh what a fool I have been! A FOOL!
"Yesterday myself and two of my co-workers"
should be
"Yesterday two of my co-workers and I"
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330...mmar/reflex.htm
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