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sebastiannielsen
10th November 2009, 03:56 PM
Im beginning to think that xda-developers.com server(s) is going on their knees. The forum is responding bad and lags sometimes.

I wondering why, and looked further down. A big block of usernames taking up my whole screen seems to be the answer. With about ~6000 users online, I think both the connection, database server and the forum server(s) hardware are going on their maxs, I can just imagine that the server are receiving like 3000-4000 HTTP hits/second in total... And thats pretty high load.

I have a suggestion: Why not split the forum into 2 forums, and the split is done in a way so both forums is about "equally" popular. This means the forum can be split on 2 servers too with separate databases. (Like forum1.xda-developers.com and forum2.xda-developers.com)

So the first forum could have the most popular forums, and the second forum could have the rest.

This to make performance at xda-developers.com better.
orb3000
10th November 2009, 03:59 PM
Welcome to forums

Why donīt you better do a donation!!:eek:

That way owners can manage any overload:cool:
DaveShaw
10th November 2009, 05:01 PM
We have more than 1 server you know (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_%28computing%29) ;).

Dave
MrObvious
16th November 2009, 10:35 PM
Well it seems bad. Is it because I'm from Kansas and the server is overseas? It can take up to like five or ten seconds for a page to even begin to load.
conyeje2
17th November 2009, 12:36 AM
I think that a forum split wouldn't benefit the xda site as a whole. There are a lot of benefits from working together, and you never know how many rom, stack, or radio problems have been solved from developers looking into issues mentions on other phones and collaborating with other developers. There could be a invaluable amount of networking loss and communication loss between xda-users and providers in splitting the forum into 2 databases.
Dee-Key
20th November 2009, 10:27 AM
yeah, well. something must be done though, because the site is responding very slow, and sometimes not at all..
DaveShaw
20th November 2009, 10:44 AM
yeah, well. something must be done though, because the site is responding very slow, and sometimes not at all..

Well, there's some work planned :) (http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=261)

Dave