I just wanted to thank Hans again for making such a great script. I got hit with 30k uniques/day last weekend and onArcade took it in stride. I didn't notice any slow downs at all even with 700+ users online at once. I do have my own dedicated server so I am sure that helped but I know GSS would have crumbled under that kind of load no matter what kind of server it was on. Thanks Hans!
It is totally normal to run such a big site on a dedicated server, shared hosting would be just too unstable.
BTW have you added some kind of extra caching system or are you running basically the default script? I know onArcade can take a lot, but I never really knew it can take that much.
Glad to see how your site has come along Ram. I remember the days when you was developing it. How youv'e manged to get so many visitors while mine has only grown so slow compared to yours is a great mystery to myself
Hope your arcade keeps rocking and rolling!
Hans Wrote:It is totally normal to run such a big site on a dedicated server, shared hosting would be just too unstable.
BTW have you added some kind of extra caching system or are you running basically the default script? I know onArcade can take a lot, but I never really knew it can take that much.
I have thought about adding an extra caching system for in the future but now its just plain old onArcade. I was amazed that it was able to handle the loads myself. That alone makes it worth the price of the script.
Proof:
![[Image: mostonlinewg1.jpg]](http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3296/mostonlinewg1.jpg)
Well, I may have spoken a bit too soon. Broke 1000 users online at once yesterday and locked my server up good. Top said MYSQL was using 150-200% CPU time. It seems the the function that keeps track of who is online was causing the most problems. Do you know anything about caching the SQL queries and images to speed up the load times Hans? I wouldn't mind paying for it either but I figured you would know the script better than anybody.
Ram85 Wrote:Well, I may have spoken a bit too soon. Broke 1000 users online at once yesterday and locked my server up good. Top said MYSQL was using 150-200% CPU time. It seems the the function that keeps track of who is online was causing the most problems. Do you know anything about caching the SQL queries and images to speed up the load times Hans? I wouldn't mind paying for it either but I figured you would know the script better than anybody.
Hm... I'll check into this. I know that the online checker isn't the best, but to be honest I haven't found a better way to do that. I'll check into this, but no promises.