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[antonye]

Originally posted by twpd
Did or didn't Ali say:

"Forcing people to host their avatars elsewhere would remove a large chunk of the traffic."

That's eye candy, isn't it?

*sigh*

Yes he did say that.

However (as posted in the other thread) the images hosted on this server only account for (roughly) 15% of the daily traffic (in bandwidth terms) so removing these would not have the effect that you are expecting it to.

This conclusion was made after spending time studying the weblogs of the server and running various stats programs on them, rather than uninformed specualtion as to what the problem may be.

The webteam are now looking at the other remaining possible causes to the problem to ensure that they have an accurate picture of why the board is failing, rather than throwing random solutions at it that could make it worse.

[Gizmo]

Hum, 30,000 pages per day is an awful lot and doesn't match the pages read on each thread so either main site is heavily hit or those search refreshes are generating traffic.

A quick look at upnorth stats with auto refresh searches on shows those search pages account for 15% of total traffic and showthreads is only 22% so searches which don't have avatars, sigs pictures etc are moving almost as much data as the threads themselves. Those 2 are the by far the biggest the next closest only generates 4%.

[Crunchy]

Is it our own server or do we use a web hosting firm? If the latter why don't you change hosts. My hoster provides 350Gb traffic and 20Gb space etc etc and guarantee 99.9% up-time all for $6.50 a month. It's only a suggestion

[domski]

They actually guarantee 8 hours 47 mins of downtime a year?

What a strange guarantee

Just kidding

[Edited on 18-2-2006 by domski]