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Offline CactusCarlos

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High traffic levels and reduced site functionality
« on: November 06, 2012, 12:21:43 PM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10132252

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High traffic levels and reduced site functionality
 
We are expecting a significant amount of traffic through election day and beyond. Elad has installed an additional front-end server but we still expect to have to disable certain forum functions once the load on our servers becomes too great. During these times it is absolutely necessary to remove these functions otherwise the servers will crash and the site will be unavailable to everyone.

In order to keep DU running during periods of extremely high traffic we have a system of levels in place. As traffic to the site increases, certain functions are removed at each level. When this happens a notification will appear on the Latest page indicating what level we're on. The effects of these levels are described below.

LEVEL 1
Advanced Search is unavailable
Latest page Milestones are not displayed
The red text that indicates a post has been edited is not displayed
Cool section is removed from the homepage

LEVEL 2
The right column is removed from the Latest page
Latest page customization options are unavailable

LEVEL 3
Some navigational images are not displayed
Posts counts are not displayed
Signature lines are not displayed
Stars are not displayed
Avatars are not displayed
The homepage is replaced with a static HTML file

LEVEL 4
The discussion forum is available to registered members only

LEVEL 5
The discussion forum is available to Star Members only

A word of warning: there is a strong possibility that -- at least for certain periods of time -- we will have to operate at Level 5 on election night. To prepare for this possibility you can purchase a Star Membership here if you have not done so already.

Please understand that under extreme circumstances these measures do become necessary in order to keep the site running for as long as possible, for as many people as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Re: High traffic levels and reduced site functionality
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2012, 12:35:35 PM »
What about the poor people who don't have a star because they can't afford it?
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Re: High traffic levels and reduced site functionality
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2012, 12:48:51 PM »
Not a problem.

PMSNBC is just as crazy as the DUmp and it's always available.

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Re: High traffic levels and reduced site functionality
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, 12:53:00 PM »
What about the poor people who don't have a star because they can't afford it?

I think this is $kammers way of telling them to pay up or else. Most likely there will be one or 2 bumps up to Star only to encourage any fence sitters before the big lockdown tonight.

BTW there's 1/3 the members there was last time they locked down which was way down from the previous time. They just do it now for the donation scam.

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Re: High traffic levels and reduced site functionality
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2012, 12:54:28 PM »
Txradioguy, made an excellent suggestion in another thread.
They only need to sign up on CC, then get all the level 4, and level 5 news from our moles.
I thought his idea was admirable.
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Re: High traffic levels and reduced site functionality
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2012, 02:22:56 PM »
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We are expecting a significant...

Time for a grammar nazi moment....

This phrase annoys me almost as much as the pseudo word 'irregardless' does - Every time I hear significant used in this context, the question "what does it signify ?" passes through my mind.