Update from same thread linked above.
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By: Allakhazam Defender of Justice
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We have 4 new servers sitting at our ISP waiting to be hooked up. They should be up this week I hope. That will bring us up to 19 servers. In the past, each time we have added new servers, usage went up and we ended up maxxing out again after a couple months. Hopefully, these will last us a while, but if not we will just order more. The problem comes in times like this were we are between when we decided we need more capacity and when the new servers can actually get in and get hooked up.
A good portion of our programmers' time over the past year has been spend on making the site run better and faster. Keep in mind that we have gone from a site that was running on three servers and doing less than a million page views a day to one running on 19 servers doing 5 million plus page views a day in just a little over a year. Plus, while everyone loves all the extras we have, each time we add one they put additional stress on our servers.
Unlike Thottbot, we don't have IGE's vast resources and willingness to spend tons of money without any actual return (I believe I read somewhere that Thottbot runs on something like 50 servers, though they are really doing only a slightly higher load than we do -- and they run very few ads so they are basically losing money like crazy). We're not poor, but we're not a multi-hundred million company either. Maybe someday we will be lucky enough to tap those type of resources.
BTW I have had these same issues. Click on a link adds load then browser says Done. I have adds, I have links on left, I do NOT have the stuff I wanted in the 1st place. Refresh, same no change. refresh Same no change. (insert 2-8 more refreshes) bingo info.
1-2 sec... heck 5-10 sec I can levie with. It has been the 60-120 sec to allow the page to refresh up to 10 times that has been getting my goat. Been tempted to reup my Premium Account again, but think I will wait untill the new servers are in place.
, but thanks jchapin. I knew I could move between pages but didn't know I had to, to see the first post.