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Out of curiosity, how do you make the money from the website to keep it running with such large bandwidth requirements?

Also... out of Curiousity... do you make a decent living thanks to this site? And also, When will the Porn ads go?

I'm straight, but i'm horny for that dogshit.

Wow! that's all i can say. i watched some 4k movies tonight and they loaded 5 times faster than normal. and this isn't all of the bandwith power? can't wait for it to be fully functional!

i might as well ask this while i have the chance:

1.whats with the constant errors in the bbs?
2.are the mass pop ups gonna stop any time soon? (they are really getting on my last nerves)

Everything looks and sounds good a little bit sooner over here.

At 4/29/03 10:26 PM, TomFulp wrote: Basically, our first cluster of servers is hooked up WITHOUT a router - which they are allowing because it has been that way since before the policy change. For the NEW line, however, we are unable to hook up multiple servers the same way - we have to hook up a single router and spready it out from there. Instead of a router, however, we have temporarily hooked up a single webserver. It does sound confusing. :)

-Tom

Hey Tom, great news. Glad you don't need to shell out for the BMW-priced router.

One question: What exactly is different about the content/data served by the single server on the new line versus the content/data served by the pre-existing servers? i.e. is everything all spread out between the old line and the new line right now, with both handling portal views, BBS stuff, database accesses, etc. etc. Or is the single server on the new line taking some burden off the old ones by just handling one aspect of NG?

Just curious. Thanks.

It's faster for me. =)

everything is going so much faster THANK YOU tom and wade

I've noticed a faster repsonse in the few times i've been on since you posted the news. It'll be pretty damn awesome if even more speed is on the way.

thanks for the info

Ogm thnx tom, for the first time in like 2 months a movie has loaded without me having to refresh it over and over and open and clsoe the window for like 10 minutes! this rox!

i am suprised how quick you got back to us after the last one.

At 4/30/03 04:14 AM, Bigmanbrainy wrote: i am suprised how quick you got back to us after the last one.

Im supprised how hard you are trying to come up with something to post

you just copied that from the last one.

At 4/30/03 04:20 AM, Bigmanbrainy wrote: you just copied that from the last one.

so did you

no, i changed the wording a little,.

this is cool. the site is really fast. yay!

Kjkfd

At 4/29/03 05:15 PM, TomFulp wrote:

Respond to this thread and let us know if games and movies are downloading faster for you now.

yeah I noticed that. woot!

I knew you could find something good job.

PS: Please visit my profile.

And yes i saw the difference.

now what was I thinking.... oh yeah. Yee Hah.

yay! more bandwidth for newgrounds!!!

We still need more bandwith!

Excellent, your putting alot of effort into this and i'm glad that you are so dedicated to you web-site. It sounds like it's going to work out, but if it doesn't then i'm sure you will find something else to make it work.

wow great! I couldnt belive it when a 640kb movie loaded instantly with no blanck screen at tthe beginning! W00t!!!

At 4/29/03 05:15 PM, TomFulp wrote: Expenses aside, things are looking up! Here is where things stand with our bandwidth:

1) When we were released from Troma, we took on hosting responsibilities for the old Tromaville Coalition, which was basically disbanded. In return, Troma let us keep the machines they were using for the coalition (a web server for the hosted sites, and an ad server). We decided not to run the network ad server anymore, so it has become a free machine that we had yet to hook up to the NG server cluster.

2) Francois (Troma's former tech guy who now provides hosting tech support to NG directly) has hooked up the old ad server directly to the router IP for our new bandwidth line. While we are unable to hook multiple servers up to the new line, we do have that single connection open. It's a crazy idea, but it should work.

So basically, we have a cluster of servers connected to the first 100mbps line, and a SINGLE server with the second 100mbps line all to itself. This isn't optimal, but it should result in visible improvements. Respond to this thread and let us know if games and movies are downloading faster for you now.

This is just a temporary fix. I have ordered MORE machines, so we will be able to set up a router and some more webservers to manage the extra bandwidth (ETA: 2 weeks). Once this is done, the results of the upgrade will hopefully be very obvious. Cross your fingers, and think positive thoughts - hope this will all work out! :)

Yeah, I had a shitty 3 meg movie load in a matter of seconds with my cabel connection so I would say, connection-wise, things are looking up. Now if you guys could earmark a planned fix for the voting system or the threshold s that are allowing a ton of crap to live, coupled with the fact that 99% of the users are scared to vote 0 cause' they think Wade will delete thier accounts if they do, then we'd be well on our way to some major improvements.

Oh, I'm sorry, did I say that last part out loud? OH PLEEEEZE WADE, DONT BAN MEH!!!!!!!

I have noticed a huge difference on my computer.
I can not remember the last time that I was able to cruise through movies and games as fast as I wanted.

I have a questions though:
What is considered PRIME TIMES for newgrounds?

Hot damn, I'm sitting here in sweden and a 4 MB movie just loaded in under a minute on my 512kbps DSL line. KICKASS!