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| Date Posted |
June 08, 2009 |
| News Title |
Crash, Bang #$%&&%^&*&+ |
| Posted By |
The Management |
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Today at about 3:45 CST we had a rush of users. Since December we have been kind of limiting the amount of users to 1800 or so by removing rooms. We did this to keep the system stable while we replaced every piece of hardware down to the cat 5 cables. For whatever reason, an article, a mention on a major site or the whole planet just got bored at the same time we overloaded.
Our users online stopped working at 1913 as we continued to climb way ,way into the mid 2K area. This forced a system wide reset. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for everyone that called.
We happened to get another hardware delivery on Friday and are configuring the new machines to add to the chatservers as I am writing this. So after we have the additional servers I plan on adding more rooms and letting go full blast. We should be good for up to 3K users online with the added hardware.
Once we get 3000 users online I don't think I want us to get any bigger. Chatro has been home for 100,000's of people for years and if it goes to 10,000 users online I fear we may lose that "Home" feel. I like it that I recognize people and attribute that to much of our success.
If anyone feels differently please let me know. Ultimately everything we do is by user request. For 15 years users have been guiding the development of Chatropolis and I don't plan on changing that.
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