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[lawro1983]

so i guess peak time has been the last 4 days lmao no really y is it ??

[oswald]

moved to an appropriate forum.

[therebelious1]

its really starting to get annoying
i spose peak time could be 24x7 with the worldwide audience this site has
but theres only like 100 or so members in the morning (UK)

[HSDEMONZ]

actually.. the search hasn't been OFF for 4 days.. but it might seem like that to you if you hit it at the right times.

[HSDEMONZ]

I'll assume Xan fells asleep before getting a chance to turn it back on.. so I'll go do the honours myself..

[HSDEMONZ]

done.

[quest4547]

can you turn it on now really want to search for something

[Protonus]

The fact that it ALWAYS seems to be disabled, is annoying as hell, how much bandwidth could it possibly use up?  How much money would I have to donate to ensure it's never off?!?  This site is near useless without a search engine and becasue it's always down, it's causign there to be a billion newb and stupid questions asked cluttering up the forums so that I HAVE to use search to find anything!

It's an endless cycle, no search, makes you have to search.

Can I get a hells yeah?

Seriiously how much $$$ are we talking here? I will gladly raise a donation to ensure it's not off anymore.

[vidgms4me]

QUOTE (Protonus @ Apr 22 2004, 02:07 PM)

The fact that it ALWAYS seems to be disabled, is annoying as hell, how much bandwidth could it possibly use up?  How much money would I have to donate to ensure it's never off?!?  This site is near useless without a search engine and becasue it's always down, it's causign there to be a billion newb and stupid questions asked cluttering up the forums so that I HAVE to use search to find anything! It's an endless cycle, no search, makes you have to search. Can I get a hells yeah? Seriiously how much $$$ are we talking here? I will gladly raise a donation to ensure it's not off anymore.

IIRC, it's the server's problem (not bandwidth).

It puts too much load on the server.  The servers should be split between Web and database soon, so that might help.

[Protonus]

QUOTE (vidgms4me @ Apr 22 2004, 08:50 PM)

IIRC, it's the server's problem (not bandwidth). It puts too much load on the server.  The servers should be split between Web and database soon, so that might help.

Well if they are goign to get a nother server to handle the strain, then perhaps a server donation fund should be started, unless they already have such a server, in which case, why hasn't it been done :-/

[XanTium]

Thing is we are currently using the max. 'normal x86' HW available. So we either have to go to IBM/Sun frameworks ... which is certainly too expensive or we have to split it on 2 (or more) x86 servers.
We are currently working on the 2nd option ... but it's not as easy as it sounds ... latency, security, load balancing, communication, ... between the 2 servers has to be perfect. All this doesn't make the forum cheaper to host either. The forum never 'paid' for itself, but the main site is making more money then what it cost us to host it - so I use that to pay for the forum hosting bills.

[rms2001]

Whats the deal with the search? Its now 0317 and I can't search b/c this is a peek hour? This really needs to get fixed.

[nfs924]

yeah, eveyonce and a while the scene is super-slow, and I'm getting 3.2 mB a second

[lookformeb]

QUOTE (lawro1983 @ Apr 20 2004, 07:08 AM)

so i guess peak time has been the last 4 days lmao no really y is it ??

Honestly, it's an effort to make things more difficult and kick some life back into the scene.  Afterall, all the information is there... you just need to hand pick through thousands of threads to find your answer.

All in good fun...  

[ThUgLoVe]

QUOTE (XanTium @ Apr 22 2004, 03:26 PM)

Thing is we are currently using the max. 'normal x86' HW available. So we either have to go to IBM/Sun frameworks ... which is certainly too expensive or we have to split it on 2 (or more) x86 servers. We are currently working on the 2nd option ... but it's not as easy as it sounds ... latency, security, load balancing, communication, ... between the 2 servers has to be perfect. All this doesn't make the forum cheaper to host either. The forum never 'paid' for itself, but the main site is making more money then what it cost us to host it - so I use that to pay for the forum hosting bills.

i just wanted to say thanks for this site,it has helped me a ton.i understand all of this costs lots of time and money but when will search be on 80-100% of the time?also without search ppl will post more threads askin for help and doesnt this add to the prob?

thanks for the great site