Well we just broke the 30,000 members mark today!

...Um, I wasn't going to mention this next part yet because I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch, but I think we fixed the frequent down times too with a ram upgrade last night. We doubled the ram in the server last night and so far today, the website feels pretty zippy. tonight will tell when there are loads of people online so we'll see how she holds up.

If it crashes, then I know we got other issues. I mean we still might as I am looking at the possibility of having to have the database gone through by IPS (the website software people), but I wanted to upgrade the ram first. The reason I have not upgraded it until now was because of cost. It's $25 per GB per month and we got 4gb ram now, so that was a bit of a jump for me to afford another $50 a month but it was a much needed thing that really couldn't wait too much longer..

As I am posting this, we're running around 300 simultaneous users and a server load average of 2 which is a healthy dose of people and traffic. Normally you don't want the load average over that but this time yesterday, I think she would have crashed with this amount of traffic and drove the load average way over the crash mark (around 10 or so)... SO like I said, hopefully we got it straightened out, but we'll all see what happens tonight, tomorrow and over the next few days.

Anyway, congrats to ASF for breaking the 30,000 members mark today and let's all cross our fingers that lack of ram was the persistent crash problem