Houston - 'Did we just have a problem'?

Rik · Apr 20, 2012, 10:05:34

It appears that one of IDNet's hosted sites had a competition last night, which proved unexpectedly popular and swamped the system.

Ardua · Apr 20, 2012, 10:10:45

Quote from: Rik on Apr 20, 2012, 10:05:34
It appears that one of IDNet's hosted sites had a competition last night, which proved unexpectedly popular and swamped the system.

Ah - that explains everything.

Seriously, going forward, what does this actually mean in practice?

Rik · Apr 20, 2012, 10:13:59

Better planning I think.

Ardua · Apr 20, 2012, 10:19:31

Quote from: Rik on Apr 20, 2012, 10:13:59
Better planning I think.

Thanks - I would hate to miss the beach volleyball competition when I am out and about

Steve · Apr 20, 2012, 10:23:19

Odd how I was unaffected, you would think that would be across the board or I just hit lucky.

Rik · Apr 20, 2012, 10:39:54

I think the latter, Steve.

psp83 · Apr 20, 2012, 11:42:03

Quote from: Rik on Apr 20, 2012, 10:05:34
It appears that one of IDNet's hosted sites had a competition last night, which proved unexpectedly popular and swamped the system.

Hope they get a telling off.

We always had a strict rule at work when it came to competitions or promotions, that they need to tell us in advance so everything can be put in place, if they didn't they'd risk having their site shutdown.

We ran one of the major single house competition sites in the UK, over 60k visitors in one day, PayPal started to have problems with the payments from the site before we noticed a little slow down

Rik · Apr 20, 2012, 11:44:46

There were, apparently, 75,000 in four hours.

psp83 · Apr 20, 2012, 12:02:49

Quote from: Rik on Apr 20, 2012, 11:44:46
There were, apparently, 75,000 in four hours.

Seems to be a successful competition then

Still, hope IDnet has told them off.

zappaDPJ · Apr 20, 2012, 12:09:54

What did I win?

Technical Ben · Apr 20, 2012, 13:52:52

I'll try and remember than when I invent the next best thing since sliced bread and get IDNet to host the services.

Rik · Apr 20, 2012, 14:21:35

Technical Ben · Apr 20, 2012, 14:51:59

Oh, so no vote of confidence on my intellect there.

Rik · Apr 20, 2012, 15:34:06

Of course, Ben, we always support our members.

pctech · Apr 20, 2012, 17:05:54

Maybe the competition site needed to run on a dedicated box rather than a shared server.

pctech · Apr 20, 2012, 17:17:08

Quote from: psp83 on Apr 20, 2012, 00:42:50
You just have to love servers & routers, they always choose to play up at night &or weekends... Bloody things have it in for us

Yep when I used to have to work weekends on quite a few occassions I found a couple of servers down when I arrived on a Saturday morning.

Simon · Apr 20, 2012, 21:25:38

Quote from: Steve on Apr 20, 2012, 10:23:19
Odd how I was unaffected, you would think that would be across the board or I just hit lucky.

You should have entered the bloody competition!

Steve · Apr 20, 2012, 23:12:41

There's a reason I've never won anything on the National Lottery.