I assumed it was traffic from pedes, but that means we need a better server that can handle the bandwidth. I don't think the current service provider is enough. They need to setup a hosting server that'd dedicated instead of shared.
If TheDonald.Win is using a shared server, the bandwidth is too small to handle the influx of pedes. Switch to a dedicated server with a high tier bandwidth.
Edit: NVM saw the post about it. They’ve been on dedicated servers, then expanded to more including cloud servers. They need to expand even more it seem, so the traffic must’ve been very heavy.
That's what's happening, sort of. All of us and all the lurkers. Cloudflare is working, the server is going down under the load of valid requests. It's called the Slashdot Effect from back in the day, except it's recursive - us killing us.
The mods don't want anyone's money. Maybe they could build something in to rate limit everyone. You get one refresh every 2 minutes. One post every 10 minutes, and threads are capped at 200 responses. Hit the limit? Make a new thread. Everyone refreshing these monster 2k post threads isn't helping anything.
Edit: Actually, capping the threads at X number of posts might solve the issue itself.
I’m not in IT but limiting thread length seems ham-fisted. I’d think a servers would be able to allocate resources, a min, in real time.
Example: If there’s a spicy meme or a thread with long, active commentary on meth pipe vs crack pipe with replies and shit posts.... it would seem that the system would classify the post as a ‘hot spot’ and provide additional resources....
It is ham fisted, but if you don't want to buy more servers, you have to rate limit in some fashion. I haven't looked into how the reddit code works, but if you have a huge thread, and everyone is slamming it, responding, reload, reload, reload, etc, that could be brutal to the database server. And every post to that thread increases the load when people want to reload it again.
I'm not saying it should be like that all the time, but during habbenings, it could be a useful tradeoff. If you can't serve the load, maybe you can simplify the load. You just can't magically say "allocate resources here" because that's already happening! It's not like td.w is randomly working on crap that people aren't asking for...
t. knows how internets work, was programmer
Edit: it's possible that there's some amazing caching on the server, but that doesn't seem likely.
honestly thats what i think it is..the severs cant handle the traffic when something big is going on..election night is going to be ass
I assumed it was traffic from pedes, but that means we need a better server that can handle the bandwidth. I don't think the current service provider is enough. They need to setup a hosting server that'd dedicated instead of shared.
If TheDonald.Win is using a shared server, the bandwidth is too small to handle the influx of pedes. Switch to a dedicated server with a high tier bandwidth.
Edit: NVM saw the post about it. They’ve been on dedicated servers, then expanded to more including cloud servers. They need to expand even more it seem, so the traffic must’ve been very heavy.
That’s been my thought for awhile now.
Just now able to get in. This sight has to be working on election night!
That's what's happening, sort of. All of us and all the lurkers. Cloudflare is working, the server is going down under the load of valid requests. It's called the Slashdot Effect from back in the day, except it's recursive - us killing us.
I mean I guess that's a good indicater, but the sysadmins should still have an HA failover load-balancing UTM set up in place.
That's rookie level shit...setting up a scalable web server in a virtual server
Yeah that's what I was thinking too
Not a chance. If that were the case, how come we can get in IMMEDIATELY after it ends?
We just got shut down the entire duration of the debate. That was a test for election night
we should start a fund, and then just crank up the servers for the week before and after the election
Let’s shoot for 99.99[9]
Gadzukes, man! You'd shoot for Coronavirus Survival Numbers? Lunacy! (As in moonshot)
Agreed
That was my assumption.
I kept refreshing, thinking I had a reception issue and trying both my 4g and Wi-Fi connections. I assume I was making it worse.
Indeed you were, but we forgive you lol.
The mods confirmed this.
After I posted it :P
Any chance we can find out how many users were here tonight? And how many registered users we have?
that is what’s happening
thats what it is, we're all flooding and refreshing.
The left has bigger things on their plate than shutting the site down temporarily
This could be it ... or at least add to it. IT guy here.
TBH, this is a good thing. It like a plant growing out of the pot and into a larger field.
The mods don't want anyone's money. Maybe they could build something in to rate limit everyone. You get one refresh every 2 minutes. One post every 10 minutes, and threads are capped at 200 responses. Hit the limit? Make a new thread. Everyone refreshing these monster 2k post threads isn't helping anything.
Edit: Actually, capping the threads at X number of posts might solve the issue itself.
Are.. are you saying you want brakes on this train? TREASON!
I’m not in IT but limiting thread length seems ham-fisted. I’d think a servers would be able to allocate resources, a min, in real time.
Example: If there’s a spicy meme or a thread with long, active commentary on meth pipe vs crack pipe with replies and shit posts.... it would seem that the system would classify the post as a ‘hot spot’ and provide additional resources....
No ideas how internets work btw
It is ham fisted, but if you don't want to buy more servers, you have to rate limit in some fashion. I haven't looked into how the reddit code works, but if you have a huge thread, and everyone is slamming it, responding, reload, reload, reload, etc, that could be brutal to the database server. And every post to that thread increases the load when people want to reload it again.
I'm not saying it should be like that all the time, but during habbenings, it could be a useful tradeoff. If you can't serve the load, maybe you can simplify the load. You just can't magically say "allocate resources here" because that's already happening! It's not like td.w is randomly working on crap that people aren't asking for...
t. knows how internets work, was programmer
Edit: it's possible that there's some amazing caching on the server, but that doesn't seem likely.