October 23, 2002, 16:21
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Is the site getting hammered today?
I haven't had any luck browsing without getting the dreaded "maximum number of guests has been exceeded" error at all today. And I can't see how many people are online on the frontpage, either, so I'm just assuming the site's under an unusually high load today. Anyone else having trouble?
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October 23, 2002, 16:40
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Anyone else having trouble?
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You kidding me? The place has been a jumble for the last few hours I've been online and trying to post here.
*crosses fingers and hopes this reply will make it*
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October 23, 2002, 16:50
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Apolyton CS Co-Founder
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we've hit 500 users an hour ago....
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October 23, 2002, 17:02
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PolyCast Thread Necromancer
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How many times has poly gone down? Too many.
Why has it gone down? Is it because of those stupid Civ3/MOO3 downloads or somethign?!
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October 23, 2002, 17:12
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looks like we'll have to abolish the civ3 section [sarcastic]what a shame that would be  [/sarcastic]
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October 23, 2002, 17:14
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I'm having a 1:5 hit/miss ratio. Its better in the past ten minutes though.
I'm not getting the "too many guests" anymore - I'm getting the IE error script "Cannot load page".
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October 23, 2002, 17:18
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I'm having the same trouble as everyone else. It has eased off in the last 20 minutes, though .... that's already been long enough for me to make a fool of myself. I wonder what I'll do in the next 20 .... 
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October 23, 2002, 17:18
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Apolyton CS Co-Founder
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this is our bandwidth graph today
as you can see, there is no outage
there have been of course several occasions where there was a huge row of requests and it might seem to you that the server was down. or a request of yours was waiting to be processed and the http or the mysql server was restarted to give it some "breathing" time and you got an error page("server not responding" in case of http, mysql error in case of mysql)
the cause is simply increased interest in all games we cover along with special features(ron preview, moo3 interview and screens, etc)
we're working on finding some sollutions...
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October 23, 2002, 17:50
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uh problem markos. this is when i'm logged in 
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October 23, 2002, 17:51
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PolyCast Thread Necromancer
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Originally posted by MarkG
this is our bandwidth graph today
as you can see, there is no outage
there have been of course several occasions where there was a huge row of requests and it might seem to you that the server was down. or a request of yours was waiting to be processed and the http or the mysql server was restarted to give it some "breathing" time and you got an error page("server not responding" in case of http, mysql error in case of mysql)
the cause is simply increased interest in all games we cover along with special features(ron preview, moo3 interview and screens, etc)
we're working on finding some sollutions...
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Markos, I am going to whine.
For the past few days,
1. Avatars have become a RARITY. Can't see my own, can't see anyone elses...Heck, I still want to see TKGs.
2. The large link to the chat room has disappeared for quite a whiel....
3. I'm getting MANY more error such as "Too many guests" (just got one of those a few seconds ago), "Cannot load page", "Connections are too many or whatever".....And for longer times.
PLEASE PLEASE work out a solution to this.
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October 23, 2002, 17:53
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Registered users are given priority on the server
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We are? Or is that just a trick to make people register?
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October 23, 2002, 17:54
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And inconvenience is spelt incorrectly.
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October 23, 2002, 17:55
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Apolyton CS Co-Founder
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feel free to whine as long as you note your post as a whine instead of trying to fool everyone into thinking it as a serious complaint
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October 23, 2002, 17:58
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Actually it's interesting since even sites like google.com appear to have troubles.
I read just today that for the last several days, there were mupliple DDOS attacks on many root servers.
I'm not claiming apolyton is one, but some of the false traffic could somehow end up here, right?
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October 23, 2002, 18:12
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Originally posted by Tassadar5000
PLEASE PLEASE work out a solution to this.
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the easiest is to make it a pay site, do you want that to happen?
the mans said he's working on it, so that means he's working on it 
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October 23, 2002, 18:14
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Might have to start closing down the off-topic again.
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October 23, 2002, 18:35
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It seems to have eased . Like everyone, have experienced difficulties getting thru. BUt have not notice any problem with google or any other Smac sites I visit.
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Actually it's interesting since even sites like google.com appear to have troubles. I read just today that for the last several days, there were mupliple DDOS attacks on many root servers.
I'm not claiming apolyton is one, but some of the false traffic could somehow end up here, right?
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Any further on this?
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October 23, 2002, 18:51
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what article or website did you see that fact about DDOS attacks?
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October 23, 2002, 19:15
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October 23, 2002, 20:50
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Yes, it was so bad today I saw myself forced to stop visiting 'Poly and start playing civ
Wouldn't it help a lot to temporarily close the chat room during peek hours? Just an idea...
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October 23, 2002, 21:48
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The Internet is dying!
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October 23, 2002, 23:44
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Then lets get Al Gore to invent something different!
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October 24, 2002, 02:28
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Then lets get Al Gore to invent something different!
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I think he's already busy enough trying to invent a new career for himself...
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October 24, 2002, 02:38
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Didn't similar things happen near the time of the *last big release*?
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October 24, 2002, 02:49
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Yep. It got so bad the off-topic had to be closed for periods of time. I think we got up to right around 1000 simultaneous users.
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October 24, 2002, 03:52
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At least we are mostly surviving it this time. I remember not being able to access 'Poly for hours at a time during the Civ3 release. 
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October 24, 2002, 04:40
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October 24, 2002, 05:15
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/me cries.
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October 24, 2002, 09:08
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 another thread degenerates into spam.
*taz cries too.
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