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Question: Is it me or does the PC server being full make completely no sense?

Sora's Nobody

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    Ok, this might be a bit hard to explain but here i go anyway!

    How does the server get full exactly? Sometimes i go on pc but it says the server is full! But... eh? How could it be full since, its says at the bottom of the main page when and how many users were on where there were most on. But if the server has a certain limit that would mean that everytime the server being full thing happens then the "most user ever online" would change to that date, but thats not the case!
     
    yeah, i get what you're saying. i don't know though, but i hate when that happens. it seems like it gets full for no reason
     
    It doesn't say it's full, it says it's too busy. Maybe 50 people pressed the post button within a short timeframe, so taking too many requests it coughs up an error. Server load isn't necessarily proportionate to how many people are simply logged in, it depends on their activity. And no there is no set amount of people allowed online (or if there is, it has never been reached).
     
    It's a limit of 5000 people on one time which have never been reached. It's just glitchy with our server.
     
    Yeah...It's just you.

    The server does occasionally get busy because it's probably backing up the massive database that this forum needs to run!
     
    Wait... what? Why doesn't this server get a Core i9 to avoid these problems? (Or we can wait 5 years and get the new 80+ which would have over 100 GHz)
     
    Heart's Soul said:
    Wait... what? Why doesn't this server get a Core i9 to avoid these problems? (Or we can wait 5 years and get the new 80+ which would have over 100 GHz)
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    PC relies partially on donations to cover its costs, I don't think anyone's in much of a position to upgrade the server. Rukario/someone correct me if I'm wrong.
     
    Heart's Soul said:
    Wait... what? Why doesn't this server get a Core i9 to avoid these problems? (Or we can wait 5 years and get the new 80+ which would have over 100 GHz)
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    LOL i9.. that's a consumer chip. we use server grade xeon quad cores with top of the line RAM and HDDs. there are STILL limitations on how many connections one server can handle.. what we need is a multiple server, load balanced set up and well we just can't afford that.

    so we make do with what we have. for the most part it works out well.. just if there are 700 users (guests too) all trying to login/visit at once, things get a bit overloaded. if that 700 is spread out over 10 or 15 mins, no problem.
     
    How much more donations would each user need to make for multiple servers to be affordable?
    I think something like £5 should be a "suggested donation" for people who get extremely irritated with the server being down.
    Although, I suppose it probably costs £1000s, or even $1000s at that, for you to get more servers.
     
    Rukario, the 80+ chip will be god! If you use that with this technology, you got one of the best servers in the world. (However, nobody can match up to the petabytes that Google has)

    Anyway, I calculated a bit and the 80+ chip will exceed 250GHz if each core has 3.XXGHz. Those are big numbers.
     
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