Most users ever online was 3,108, Today at 16:54.

DeVore

I never get to post those so for once..... yay!!

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DeV.

Dub13

Thats some going,I hope no smoke is coming out of the server.

Gordon

Nice.

shanethemofo

Very Niiiice

seamus

2,563 of them were bubbles.

</obligatory_bubbles_joke>

faceman

I guess no one does any work on a monday afternoon at 5pm except me!

Random

DeVore wrote: »

I never get to post those so for once..... yay!!

\o.

.o/

\o/

DeV.

Ruu_Old

Brace for impact!

Dub13

Could it be any significance that today is meant to be the unhappiest day of the year...?

aidan_walsh

/refills hamster's Lucozade and Red Bull bottles.

mike65

Dub13 wrote: »

Could it be any significance that today is meant to be the unhappiest day of the year...?

Clearly that is tosh of the highest order, today is the happiest of the year so far. Practically delirious in fact.

What % of the population (4.2 million) was online at 16.54?

Mike.

DeVore

A better question is what percentage of people who were *capable* of being here, were here. Whats the installed base of internet connections in Ireland again?

The servers (plural ) seem to be coping very nicely, I dont think we are pushing the limits yet. We know we are at the limit when that number ceases to rise regularly... we were stuck at 2k for a long time while the servers were overloaded.

Now we have a *collection* of hamsters!

DeV.

Dub13

mike65 wrote: »

Clearly that is tosh of the highest order, today is the happiest of the year so far. Practically delirious in fact

Welsh psychologist Cliff Arnall would disagree with you on that Mike,he even has a formula worked out.;)

The formula is [W+(D-d)] x T divided by MxNA, according to Mr Arnall, who specialises in confidence and happiness.

Oman

DeVore wrote: »

I never get to post those so for once..... yay!!

Meh i did it once

mike65

re Dub13

Oh I'm aware of the formula (I blogged about it elsewhere today) but if over 3,000 people were on boards at one moment + the thousands who dipped in at any point, then clearly happiness was in the accendancy

Mike.

Dub13

mike65 wrote: »

but if over 3,000 people were on boards at one moment + the thousands who dipped in at any point, then clearly happiness was in the accendancy

Not if they were all in Personal Issue's....:)

Agent Smith

DeVore wrote: »

A better question is what percentage of people who were *capable* of being here, were here. Whats the installed base of internet connections in Ireland again?

The servers (plural ) seem to be coping very nicely, I dont think we are pushing the limits yet. We know we are at the limit when that number ceases to rise regularly... we were stuck at 2k for a long time while the servers were overloaded.

Now we have a *collection* of hamsters!

DeV.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/eu/ie.htm
(out of date) says that there is 2,060,000 Internet users in Ireland

Which would Work out ( Very roughly)
That 1.5% of all internet users in ireland were on boards @ 16:54pm

Not bad!

mike65

Dub13

Fair point. Have the admins got the list of most users down the years?

Mike.

Dub13

DeV,

What are the Stats like for the weekend...?I no it dips a bit naturally but IMO it has been getting busier here at the weekends.

Rew

Jaysus, How much bandwith is bords.ie averaging per sec these days?

Tar.Aldarion

Boardsis still behind a few porn sites and a polish site in the irish rankings though.

DeVore

We're easily into Terrabytes a month at the moment.

Two million Internet users in Ireland?!? Thats a joke! Christ, I doubt there are 2M computers with a modem/wireless installed in the country myself.

2M would be half the population!


As for the weekends, we pretty much consistently have done about half the traffic on the weekends as on the weekdays (you bunch of slackers!).
I'll check the details now and see if that has changed.

DeV.

DeVore

our Visits per Day has risen to about 70K at the moment (as defined by Google) and on the weekends its about 45-50k.

I was wrong before, it has been running at about 2/3rds of the weekday average and so it doesnt seem signifcantly up but it is up from last year.

DeV.

Crash

.15%, not 1.5% just an order of magnitude off :P

Dub13

DeVore wrote: »

it has been running at about 2/3rds of the weekday average and so it doesnt seem signifcantly up but it is up from last year.

Maybe the weekend posters are just more active and posting more often so that would mean we are both right...;)

Bah, and there I was working today. Obviously I was taking up some of the slackers' work.

Asok

In the last 30 days we did around 2.4 TB in and 14.2 TB out
Average outbound of around 8MB/s and about 2MB/s in.

Those are pretty rough figures, I could come up with better but tis time for fewd!

TimTim

Asok wrote: »

In the last 30 days we did around 2.4 TB in and 14.2 TB out
Average outbound of around 8MB/s and about 2MB/s in.

Those are pretty rough figures, I could come up with better but tis time for fewd!

Have the BW stats increased by much since the server upgrade?

DeVore

The visitor stats have rocketed. Before, we would crawl to a stop at about 2200 users. Now with the new 5 server rig and 2 database servers we can handle 3100 without breaking a sweat by the looks of it.

Dev.

faceman

Given the growth of the site in recent times, would it be possible somehow to contact previous or stale posters via email to get some feedback on why they no longer post here etc?

While the survey done last year (or thereabouts) provided useful information on those of us who are active, it would probably be even more useful to have feedback from users who dont post that often anymore or at all anymore?

DeVore

I'm sure there are a bunch of people who hate our guts. I'm sure if we contacted all the people who dont post here any more I'm sure we'd get a right earful...

I dont think thats a particularly useful earful either. Many of them were weeded out because they simply dont play well with others and can't co-habitate on our little island on the internet.

DeV.

Dub13

DeVore wrote: »

The visitor stats have rocketed. Before, we would crawl to a stop at about 2200 users. Now with the new 5 server rig and 2 database servers we can handle 3100 without breaking a sweat by the looks of it.

Don't be to cocky.....you sound like whoever built the Titanic.

faceman

it's more civil normal folks who's feedback could be of value as opposed to the ones who were banned.

sioda

I think this is great and more power to the servers they are run by some fit hamsters.

Its nice to see the sub money I pay helps out so people sub more

Agent Smith

çrash_000 wrote: »

.15%, not 1.5% just an order of magnitude off :P

god damm it, this is why i suck at maths

Zascar

What are the other stats? How many total members (and active members)? and what % of the population does that equate too?

lostexpectation

your damaging the economy devore don't let bertie catch you ...

Dord

Dub13 wrote: »

Don't be to cocky.....you sound like whoever built the Titanic.

You mean we're going to crash into an iceberg? :eek:

Terry

http://www.big-boards.com/highlight/108/

On the rankings drop down, select "sort by traffic".

More: http://www.big-boards.com/board/108/

Dustaz

faceman wrote: »

Given the growth of the site in recent times, would it be possible somehow to contact previous or stale posters via email to get some feedback on why they no longer post here etc?

Site performance (seems fixed now)
Signal/noise ratio
Size

I'd go into the whole village/city comparison but theres no point as boards works very well and its an empty argument:)

DeVore wrote: »

I dont think thats a particularly useful earful either. Many of them were weeded out because they simply dont play well with others and can't co-habitate on our little island on the internet.

I think your being a little harsh on a lot of people who dont post as much as they used to anymore there dev

CuLT

This is no country for old men Dustaz.

DeVore

Sorry, you are probably right Dusty, by no means would that cover everyone who doesnt post here. There are people who didnt like the direction we took the site, or who just got bored or who didnt have time or who didnt agree with mod/admin decisions its true. We both know people from the gaming era who dont use this site as much as before or at all!

I sometimes worry about those people but honestly I dont think you can keep all the people happy all the time and while I used to try to do that, I found I was just killing myself over every little row and argument.

Ultimately we just try to struggle on and in the end I have realised that so long as I am comfortable about how things are here and where we are going, thats most of what I can do.

There was a time when I could have controlled all of Boards and everyone knew me, now I find it hard to even be heard let alone have my decisions on "direction" make impact.

DeV.

Karl Hungus

Wow, Dustaz. Now there's someone I've not seen in a long while. Nice to see you pop your head back in.

faceman

Dustaz wrote: »

Site performance (seems fixed now)
Signal/noise ratio
Size

I'd go into the whole village/city comparison but theres no point as boards works very well and its an empty argument:)

fair point

po0k

Graphs please.

Doesn't matter what they represent, just get some trends and spikes.

stevenmu

aidan_walsh

stevenmu wrote: »

Best inadvertent Google bomb ever.

Boston

Hey Dustaz, last we meet I was about to sit the leaving cert, long time no see.

Cantab.

I imagine if boards was running on ASP.net the server requirement would at least double?

stevenmu

Cantab. wrote: »

I imagine if boards was running on ASP.net the server requirement would at least double?

Charts? Graphs?