who told you we had one server initially?

After browsing there a few times I certainly don't envy the "big guido". Being a moderator there would seem to require massive amounts of xanax, or absolute, or both.

heheh

I have found nothing wrong with that board so far...

It's easy to say poor planning when it's others money. When you don't really know what the need will end up being...you throw it out at a basic level and tweak your budget, product accordingly.

There is no advertising there. There's no income at this point to offset the expenses so spending like you're a billionaire to make sure every tard and their brother can say "howard rocks" is pissing money into the wind. You don't know the actual demand. Until you do - being conservative is smart business.

Bandwidth isn't the issue.

It's a hardware / network design issue.

I'm sure they know what they are doing by stepping back to gauge what the max # of simultaneous users they need to support is before spending the money and building the network only to find out they needed 10x the network.


Forums can be tricky because there is the DB element to them.

It's not as simple as getting a beefy box, connecting a gigabit link to it & you're off.

LARGE forums often run on multiple _well equiped_ DB backeneds with
as many load balanced client front ends you need to serve your load.... until you saturate your resources to your backend.

Err... to explain it easier:

X number of users requires Y number of front ends.

Y number of front ends requires Z number backends.

Holio is just trying to get the value of X before spending any serious money building a network. :thumbsup


A word to the wise tho Jim.... plan for at least 10x peak requirements with Howard. You never know when he's going to piss off half the world and have them land on the forums doorstep... wouldn't want to give them the satisfaction of thinking they brought the forum to it's virtual knees.

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Explain how passing bogus information makes you even remotely qualified to discuss.....

You plan with budgets.....we planned with the budget we were given....

one server.....you its one thing to be wrong....and without the correct information....it is another to be wrong with conviction....

What makes you think for one minute i am going to disclose the inner dealings we have with Howard....do you have any idea how many people are in this loop.....how many people need to be satisfied on a daily basis.....

no you do not.....and you have wrong information with it only being one server.....i cannot stress to you enough.....you do not know what is going on so stop pretending as if you do

sour graping!!!

uhhhh...not a member yet???

I would just like to say congrats to Jim and the Dreamtank crew for landing such a huge deal. :thumbsup
I believe they are competent proffessionals that can handle such a big undertaking as the Howard board.
As Jim said, however many times, it is being tested. That is all that really needs to be said, I mean how the hell could they set it up so it runs right without knowing what parameters it needs to operate on.
Best of luck to you Jim.

I read the technotes on the board. They say it's b/c of server loads. I say they need to get a better server and look into load balancing options!

all these replies and no link? :helpme :glugglug

Very cool, im waiting for you guys to open it fully. Better to do test first and make a few calculations than just opening on chance......

Keep up the good work :thumbsup

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LOL. Some people have no clue....

You think they have a problem with bandwidth? They can afford more then you could ever think of.