FSTJACK
Full Access Member
We have a situation that we did not forsee when we started this forum.
That is the huge growth rate of members guests and usage.
We have to have what is called a service provider for this Forum.
This service provider does what is called hosting for us. We buy this service and it is sold in units of what is called bandwidth.
When we started 2.5 months ago we thought we would have enough bandwidth for at least one year. We blew past that limit in less than 30 days. We exceeded the amount of bandwidth that we could use.
We then went to the maximum package that we could without getting our own dedicated server to host us.
Patrick thought that this could serve us for years in the future with out any problems.
We are exceeding our bandwidth again and again at times of heavy user traffic. This is what we think is causing some of the logg in problems. Patrick is not sure if this is all or just part of the loggin problem. He is working very hard to try and figure this out.
To increase our bandwidth from where we are now would cost us 1000 times more than we are paying now for hosting.
We are discussing what to do and how to handle this situation.
The things that use up bandwidth are;
The number of people that are on on the forum at one time.
The amount of pictures that are posted and the size of the pictures. (We let people post pictures that are easy to post and are very large.)
We allow people to have large signature areas with pictures.
The amount of posts that are posted by members. (If you are just posting to increase your post count it will cause us to have problems)(Post Hoing).
The number of smilies and animated smilies used in a post. (Four lines of smilies eats up a huge amount of bandwidth every time someone opens a page).
We do not want to limit or restrict what we have given you in the way of services or capabilities.
We want everybody to have fun.
But as the man said we have a situation Mr Dillon.
Patrick and I have talked about this at length today. He left work early today to work on this situation to see if he can better utilize the resources we have ie; bandwidth.
Patrick or I will put up more information as we know more about our options.
Thank all of you for your understanding at this time.......Jack
That is the huge growth rate of members guests and usage.
We have to have what is called a service provider for this Forum.
This service provider does what is called hosting for us. We buy this service and it is sold in units of what is called bandwidth.
When we started 2.5 months ago we thought we would have enough bandwidth for at least one year. We blew past that limit in less than 30 days. We exceeded the amount of bandwidth that we could use.
We then went to the maximum package that we could without getting our own dedicated server to host us.
Patrick thought that this could serve us for years in the future with out any problems.
We are exceeding our bandwidth again and again at times of heavy user traffic. This is what we think is causing some of the logg in problems. Patrick is not sure if this is all or just part of the loggin problem. He is working very hard to try and figure this out.
To increase our bandwidth from where we are now would cost us 1000 times more than we are paying now for hosting.
We are discussing what to do and how to handle this situation.
The things that use up bandwidth are;
The number of people that are on on the forum at one time.
The amount of pictures that are posted and the size of the pictures. (We let people post pictures that are easy to post and are very large.)
We allow people to have large signature areas with pictures.
The amount of posts that are posted by members. (If you are just posting to increase your post count it will cause us to have problems)(Post Hoing).
The number of smilies and animated smilies used in a post. (Four lines of smilies eats up a huge amount of bandwidth every time someone opens a page).
We do not want to limit or restrict what we have given you in the way of services or capabilities.
We want everybody to have fun.
But as the man said we have a situation Mr Dillon.
Patrick and I have talked about this at length today. He left work early today to work on this situation to see if he can better utilize the resources we have ie; bandwidth.
Patrick or I will put up more information as we know more about our options.
Thank all of you for your understanding at this time.......Jack
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