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Neal Stevens
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 Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 10:35 am Post subject: Subsim Downloads status April 25-26 |
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As previously mentioned, the increased forum traffic generated by the popularity of SH3 and the growing collection of downloads brought the server to capacity earlier this week. The datacenter is staging an additional server to host the downloads and we expect that to be online shortly. Once it is running, Downloads will resume normally. Thanks for your patience.
Neal
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Neal Stevens
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| Subsim Downloads will be back online shortly. We have a new server scheduled to go online today. The datacenter is prepping a Pentium4 2.4 GHz machine with 1 GB RAM and twin 80GB Hard Drives, good for a total monthly transfer 1400 GB. |
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Neal Stevens
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| Technical problems with the NIC drivers and other mysterious computer stuff have driven the sysadmin back into his cave. We will attempt tp coax him out to complete the upgrade tomorrow. |
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Neal Stevens
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| Server upgrade completed, downloads to be enabled shortly. |
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martes86
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Bill Nichols
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| Neal Stevens wrote: | | Subsim Downloads will be back online shortly. We have a new server scheduled to go online today. The datacenter is prepping a Pentium4 2.4 GHz machine with 1 GB RAM and twin 80GB Hard Drives, good for a total monthly transfer 1400 GB. |
Neal - What's your typical monthly transfer? |
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Neal Stevens
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hi Bill,
Before Feb 2005, we averaged around 500 GB a month
Mar 2005: 800 GB 
Apr 2005: 1160 through the 22nd :dead:
Hard to imagine, I know. But the traffic growth is also visible in the number of new members joining the Subsim forums:
2774 new forum members since Jan 1, 2005
2153 just since March 17th (SH3 release)
Since we brought the new Downloads server online this morning:
Server uptime: 6 hours 21 minutes 51 seconds
Total accesses: 415737 - Total Traffic: 3.7 GB
18.1 requests/sec - 168.5 kB/second - 9.3 kB/request
3.7 * 3.8 * 31 = 436 GB a month; that will easily double since the SH3 downloads have been offline for the last 4 days and I imagine players are just beginning to frequent that section again since the new server came up.
Subsim Review is growing again  |
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martes86
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Of course it grows. |
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Bill Nichols
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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Neal -
I'm seeing a similar trend at my site, tho on a much smaller scale 
That's one reason why I haven't opened a SHIII section -- I don't think I could afford the bandwidth.  |
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Neal Stevens
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| If Hitman and Seadler had not made Pacific Aces, I would be in sorry shape right now. Thankfully, PA built up the war chest so I can run in the red for a while. |
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Drebbel
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Congrats on the new server Neal. Over 2000 the members sinc March 1st ?? WOW, impressive.
I sure hope you still have some $$ left to fule up you Suzuki |
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