Openpandora Site Slow Or Down...?

[w1ll14m]

LOCK AND LOAD, CLEAR THOSE MURDERHOLES, AND I'LL SEE YOU ON THE BEACH!

Yes, the Digg thing wont be helping the poor webservers.

Got my debit card sitting here, twitching in anticipation...

same here
i wish ya all goodluck

i'll be preordering 2
1 for me and 1 for a good friend

 

[benjiro]

Hehe, I've noticed that.
Was it that unexpected? I thought such a server can easily handle thousands of requests and only in the million-number-area starts the "DoS"- fun. ^_^

That depends if they took measures to deal with it. A standard apache/mysql/php can't handle to much traffic. In most cases you need to optimize the server like using squid, enabling the cache in mysql so you don't keep repeating the same freaking query's ( but just get the cached results ), etc. It all depends ofcourse on the hardware thats running, the connection...

And lets hope the database has index's on the right spots. Seen to many site's going down with the excuse "but the hardware can't handle the load", only to see that they 'left join' the crap out of there sql query's, and are not using any index's. Add index, o look, the load goes down, what a surprise. People underestimate the effect of a few simple but well placed logical tweaks, to help the server hardware ;-)

 

[javaJake]

REALLY impressive how many users we have - must be a few thousand at once!

*looks at the number of Pandora units shipping*
*looks at the number of users refreshing*
*looks more nervously back at the number of Pandora units shipping*
*changes auto-refresh from 30 seconds to 5*

Just kidding.

Actually, the best place to refresh is here, because there will be a thread saying "Pre-orders Started!" the moment they open.

 

[javaJake]

:lol: I just got the perfect idea.

Change the website to a simple "Stop it with the F5 already. We'll be back at 2 PM GST, no sooner!" would be perfect.

Edit: Auto-post-merge doesn't tell you that I wrote the next line minutes after the first two, so I wrote this so you'd know that auto-post-merge doesn't tell you that I wrote the next line minutes after...

Just checked again, and they're back. Woo! The users around here actually listened to good sense this time!

Another Edit: ...And now the forums are slower. They must've only shifted targets.

 

[Kyo]

I think a STOP HITTING REFRESH notice should be stickied too...

For 2 hours? hardly worth it

Anyway, it's back!

 

[atomicthumbs]

yeah, check th unique users and you will see atomictumbs and co IP addresses.

Nah, I just got up 5 minutes ago. 5:43 AM.

 

[jaycee900]

Please wait for the newsletter, it will be within the next hour and a half.

You said 2pm, the next hour and a half will take it nearly to 3pm....people have booked 1/2 days, full days, changed lunch hours, yet the pre-order time moves...bit annoying...please keep it at 2pm bst

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

Wow, idiots constantly refreshing the site? I would never have guessed :rolleyes:


I'll preorder later when it cools down

 

[icurafu]

a squid proxy is not ideal when it is next to the webserver.

When I was building an apache/php/mysql server in the 90s, the rule was that each concurrent connectin was 2MB, so if you want 100 concurrent connections, you would need a massive 256MB or ram.

 

[PoisonedV]

FUCK YOU, DIGG!

 

[benjiro]

You said 2pm, the next hour and a half will take it nearly to 3pm....people have booked 1/2 days, full days, changed lunch hours, yet the pre-order time moves...bit annoying...please keep it at 2pm bst

I see this is your first time. With a (hot) item, its almost impossible to keep at the expected release hour. Seen it to many times already. Especially as how the sites get more & more hammered.

Remember, the order page is also on those servers. And there is nothing worse then pressing "order" or "confirm", and see a "to many connections" or other crap. And you don't know if your order has been saved or not.

 

[Squidge]

You said 2pm, the next hour and a half will take it nearly to 3pm....people have booked 1/2 days, full days, changed lunch hours, yet the pre-order time moves...bit annoying...please keep it at 2pm bst

No, he said ROUGHLY 2pm, not EXACTLY 2pm.

 

[yosh64]

hey

jaycee900: Ya sure ya not getting ya timezones mixed up? I thought it was 2pm GMT. I live in GMT+10 timezone myself, so I expect preorders to start around 12:00 at night. Hmm, it's now 10:51pm over here.

cyas

 

[Kyo]

Oh yeah, mentioning that there are thousands of users is going to calm them down

 

[Mutilator]

QUOTE
Oh yeah, mentioning that there are thousands of users is going to calm them down


prob only 100 or so people spamming F5

 

[javaJake]

Now they've got the forums slowed to a crawl.

 

[mazza558]

It'd be hilarious if, after all that panic, everyone who wants to preorder will get a preorder.

 

[God Ginrai]

You said 2pm, the next hour and a half will take it nearly to 3pm....people have booked 1/2 days, full days, changed lunch hours, yet the pre-order time moves...bit annoying...please keep it at 2pm bst

No, he said ROUGHLY 2pm, not EXACTLY 2pm.


I need it to be ASAP, because I have class in 1 hour, and it takes me at least 10 minutes to get to class. T_T

-God Ginrai

 

[Kyo]

I _ALMOST_ had the exact same problem with the same time even, but then my teacher decided that we'r enot doing these lessons, so I got lucky.

Also, it's 2PM GMT, everything is slow as hell

 

[Spray190]

taking the day off def seems to be the best idea. And in regards to the forum slowing to a crawl, that cant be right its far slower than a crawl