There are a maximum number of simultaneous connections that are set by the server so that the server does NOT go down. If you just wait a few minutes I'm sure you'll be able to get in.
I taken a few things out of the code and the site is now reading all of it's articles out of text files as opposed to the db. We'll have to see if that helps anything. I'm going to do a few more things in the days to come.
BTW, I'm the guy that write/coded Overclockers Online.
You are right about that. I'm the guy that wrote the site, and this is the most traffic we've ever had to handle. There seems to be some preset number of simultaneous connections the server people set, so that seems to be the immediate problem. I've modified and modified everything on the page to try to get it to scale better, but I think the time has come to just get rid of the db queries altogether and go totally textfile based, with db backups of everything. Either that, or get a dedicated server for just our webiste, which is undoable at this point in time.
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There are a maximum number of simultaneous connections that are set by the server so that the server does NOT go down. If you just wait a few minutes I'm sure you'll be able to get in.
I taken a few things out of the code and the site is now reading all of it's articles out of text files as opposed to the db. We'll have to see if that helps anything. I'm going to do a few more things in the days to come. BTW, I'm the guy that write/coded Overclockers Online.
You are right about that. I'm the guy that wrote the site, and this is the most traffic we've ever had to handle. There seems to be some preset number of simultaneous connections the server people set, so that seems to be the immediate problem. I've modified and modified everything on the page to try to get it to scale better, but I think the time has come to just get rid of the db queries altogether and go totally textfile based, with db backups of everything. Either that, or get a dedicated server for just our webiste, which is undoable at this point in time.