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Upgrading The Server Bandwidth?!



Could we get a server upgrade for the site bandwidth please?

Any thoughts anyone?!

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Posted Thursday, February 23rd, 2012    Quote This Post
chris38528
Level 3
291 ARP
41/250, 209 ARP to go
41/250, 209 ARP to go
Yes please! After the fiasco from the Dead Rising giveaway I very much agree. It was infuriating to no end to get 502 errors when refreshing while trying to get a key.

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow never comes!

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Posted Thursday, February 23rd, 2012    Quote This Post
wilbymilstone
Level 7
3335 ARP
1835/2147482148, 2147480313 ARP to go
1835/2147482148, 2147480313 ARP to go
i haven't seen much of a problem but i wasn't on during the dead rising giveaways either.

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Posted Thursday, February 23rd, 2012    Quote This Post
jimbo312
Level 7
2546 ARP
1046/2147482148, 2147481102 ARP to go
1046/2147482148, 2147481102 ARP to go
Definitely, yes! Those two game giveaways were a nightmare as it was! 502 Bad Gateway errors for a whole hour! *Shudder* it was terrible.

"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

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Posted Thursday, February 23rd, 2012    Quote This Post
Eirreann
Level 7
5071 ARP
3571/2147482148, 2147478577 ARP to go
3571/2147482148, 2147478577 ARP to go
Only seems to be a problem when they have a giveaway. They just need to operate the giveaway better to prevent so many people from breaking the site.

New forums... Any Time Soon™

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Posted Thursday, February 23rd, 2012    Quote This Post
definewikipedia
Level 7
8388 ARP
6888/2147482148, 2147475260 ARP to go
6888/2147482148, 2147475260 ARP to go
I said that too for the giveaways, otherwise it's all ok.

Through all the differences it is still perfection.

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Posted Friday, February 24th, 2012    Quote This Post
Memfisto
Level 7
6430 ARP
4930/2147482148, 2147477218 ARP to go
4930/2147482148, 2147477218 ARP to go
The site is hosted on a cloud based solution that automatically ramps up processing power, memory, and bandwidth when needed.

There is a delay in how quickly it can react.

The giveaways generate an absurd amount of traffic in a small amount of time (over 2000 people tried to get them in under 30 seconds). Multiply that by the amount of refreshes a second and you can guess the amount of server strain.

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Posted Friday, February 24th, 2012    Quote This Post
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