At 5/6/03 08:15 AM, TomFulp wrote:
Last week, we managed to get a bandwidth boost by hooking an extra server up to the new line. We are still waiting on the additional servers to arrive, but for the time-being it looked like site performance had improved and users were finally able to download large Flash files during peak hours.
I am finding the new performance most excellent. I was one of the many people afflicted with the "movies download and play for about 10 times, then they jam up and won't display at all until IE or the computer is restarted" error. Since you've installed the extra line, even with only one computer on the end of it, I have not had a single movie fail to load. Beautiful.
However, we have been disappointed to see that our average daily Portal views has remained the same. We hoped to see it jump, since users were more successful with viewing submissions.
Our current bottleneck might be the database. A lot of users have reported database errors. Have you been seeing them more SINCE the bandwidth upgrade? We really need to fix every bottleneck, or these new servers might not even be able to help!
Well, yes, I do still get errors, but not as often. I heard some people complaining that they couldn't even get to the movie pages from the portal on Friday or Saturday (I myself was out of town, so I don't know), but maybe it was just those super busy days, I dunno. Usually a reload in a minute works fine, though. Overall, a major improvement.