We broke the record!

dE_logics

Ok, lets just get things straight here, if there are a million people online at a single instance, then assuming physicsforums server have enough bandwidth available, following will the consequences -

1) If physicsforums have their own servers
1.1) and its windowsed, it will result in a crash with complete data loss (property of the classic windows file systems) if PF has not taken backups.
1.2) If it's running Linux, the browsing speed will slow down terribly giving the end user a miserable experience for the day.
2) If physicsforums is hosted by a data center organization (very likely) -
2.1) Their servers crashing, but here it's completely safe, since they most probably have good baking up mechanism, being an organization.
2.2) The servers slowing down terribly resulting in consequence similar to point 1.2.
2.3) The allocated bandwidth usage expiring before hand, like it has happen before under my experience, rendering physicsforums completely useless for the time being.

Thus a lots of people online simply for setting up a record is not a good idea.

Verdict -- Before making a sequitur ensure that you understand the context.

Greg Bernhardt

We certainly could not support a million people online at once! Not even close lol. But as we scale up in visitors we can scale up in power. So it's not a problem. The more the merrier.

Greg Bernhardt

Record: 5,932 @ T

lisab

Wow!

I guess a spike at this time of year isn't a big surprise - school just started.

Evo

Congrats Greg!! You rawk!

hypatia

I think we will need to set up vending machines in the lobby.

Astronuc

Record: 6,293 @ Y

Kurdt

Quite a boost. Very good for the site.

Greg Bernhardt

Sept is good to PF!

6,517 today!

Evo

Even now, there are 2,810 in Homework!

micromass

Wow great!!!! September is busy it seems...

jtbell

Ah, September! That magical time of year when thousands of students start to think, "why the **** did I decide to take this physics class?!?!"

jhae2.718

TylerH

It's funny to read this now. I don't think I've ever logged on to PF without seeing at least 3000 active users, even in the middle of the night(EST).

Fredrik

Yes it is. Greg thinks so too, as you can see in post #54, where he bumps this thread after it's been inactive for 5 years.

Greg Bernhardt

another record today: 6,647

Ivan92

PF is on a roll! :D

Update: New record! 6,665!

Update 2: Now it is 6,677 lol!

Last and final update: Now it is 6,680. I am going to stop because each time I look at it, the number just keeps increasing lol!