Oooppss... I did it AGAIN...... Please don't break my server... Ok, so about 3 weeks ago, I spent about 3 hours doing some marketing work late at night not thinking about the ramifications on the hosting account for the site in question... By morning, the site wasn't responding, just as if under a DDOS attack, yet all caused by legitimate traffic.... my stats broke, database corruption, and major problems, despite the server being locked down like fort knocks, to ensure that no one account could cause any real disruption on another, all other sites were slowed down by about 50% or more. So we fixed it all up, tweaked mysql, upped the resource limits for the account, transfered some sites off the server....reinstalled stats.. etc.. etc... So I went and did an hour of marketing the night before last now, so like 29 hours ago... yesterday traffic to the front end site went from the dwindling 250 unique visitors per day which was a nose dive of sorts from the 400/day before the 3 hour late night marketing shift.... to almost 800 yesterday.. now at 1am I get an email from my lead dev... worried about site load... and we're already sporting 150 unique visitors in an hour since midnight..... Who thinks my site is going to break before lunch time, 12:00 pm PST, and who thinks it will still be online and working?
i bet you are on a shared hosting get some dedicated host and stop worrying about 'server load' and all that stuff
And stop using server-based stats if you're on a slow server, that's what kills it. You can find good free 3rd party alternatives around the web
lol... nice attempts at help guys but I own a hosting company and multiple servers, can't move the site until it's sister servers are all configured, we're not using apache now and switching to nginx. Not on a slow server at all, 6 cores 8 gb ram raid setup. 400 unique visitors per day is the _average_ to the _front_end_ only. This does not include users sites or users dashboards etc. The poll is in regards to whether the hosting account it's on will survive until she's moved off to her 2 new servers. Last time the stats crapped out and broke, so I have no idea how high they went, especially once people start getting connection timeouts, but clearly well over 800 anyhow.... I appreciate the replies, thank you, but not really after any tips here, just kind of a moment of entertainment as I watch and wait for my admins and devs to put the puzzle pieces together in a race against the clock... The site is still responding, although it did slow down a bit this morning, may have been due to cron jobs etc... Who thinks I should do more marketing today?
You've got really serious problems if 400 visitors in a day can give you problems. What kind of scripts are you running over there?
Man just goes to show how much attention people pay before posting, and where people's heads are at... Hopefully people will start jumping to positive conclusions more often in future. Again, this is the stats for the one front end site. There are over 3,000 sites on the domain. We don't have any problems at all, thanks. Once, in 15 years doing business online, I managed to crash a site entirely due to traffic and spider overload caused by a bit of white hat marketing, organic traffic only. No advertising, no paid traffic, no black hat, no garbage. We fixed it all up and tweaked configuration for it, purchased 2 new dedicated servers just for this one account, and now I've made the traffic spike again a few days before we planned to move it over on a new architecture. Since my main job is the marketing and my dev and server admins have to deal with it, I thought it was a neat little race for them and thought I would give it some fuel, and open it for comments. I was hoping for some either constructive, humorous, comical, encouraging or otherwise positive comments, but hey, if I'm the only one that sees it that way I'm not the one losing here.