MikeCAdministrator
(Admin)
Thu Jul 07 2005 07:55 PM
Bandwidth Saturated

The site is responding slowly because our connection Link is saturated. The server itself is handling the load quite well, unlike last year with the old server.

This time it's the connection link for bandwidth, and why I was hoping to move it to a new colocation facility before August -- I still haven't found a new location. Unfortunately, it's July, so I'm still in the old location in Virginia. I'm offloading more to the image servers, and probably will start to cache more as time goes on to avoid the slowness. Most images are already on other networks, so the bandwidth is being saturated with pure text. (Exceptions are Avatars, attachements, etc)

But flhurricane shouldn't go down during this time. I may make adjustments which will cause "blinks" out on the site. But it should recover soon.

If anyone is familiar with throttling bandwidth on apache 2 let me know, I can find plenty on the old Apache 1.3, but nothing for 2. Ie mod_bandwidth, mod_throttle isn't for 2



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