Wow!

[sirhc55]

This is quite amazing;

a few minutes ago we had 14 registered users and 52 guests online and since Jan 1 we have increased membership by 134!!

Chris

[MHD]

Hmmm, perhaps its about time Gary thought about ads!

52 Guests!?

Hey guys!! Come in the water is warm!

[gstark]

Chris,

The increase in the number of members is quite amazing.

I suspect that the number of "guests" is actually being inflated by those who are using the rss feed; that's why I disabled it for a little while, but the results that disabling it gave me were not at all conclusive.

I may have to find some way to distinguish the rss feed recipients from the guests so that we can get a better feel for who's doing what.

[birddog114]

This is quite amazing;

a few minutes ago we had 14 registered users and 52 guests online and since Jan 1 we have increased membership by 134!!

Chris

That why I rang Gary about 2 hours ago once I saw number of guests!
1K will be soon if this wave will turn into Tsunami and slam the D70Users

[MHD]

Do you log the http_referer?? Where is most of the traffic coming from...

[gstark]

All the guests are showing different and varied IP addresses.

I would need to try to cross-reference those IPs against those from which members have posted to try to confirm this, or else set the TTL on the pages to a ludicrously low level to force them to refresh their source more frequently.

What I just did was rename the page for about 45 minutes, but whilstever a client is using the file from their cache, I'm not going to be seeing any changes here.

[Nnnnsic]

And yet still no metatags.

However, if that was the number of guests on the server and it isn't RSS related, we're going to have to move to a better connection very soon.

[birddog114]

And yet still no metatags.

However, if that was the number of guests on the server and it isn't RSS related, we're going to have to move to a better connection very soon.

That what my concerning and thoughts

[gstark]

And yet still no metatags.

However, if that was the number of guests on the server and it isn't RSS related, we're going to have to move to a better connection very soon.

Another point of interest is that, despite the load that this traffic should be putting on the server and connection, it seems (to me) to be holding up quit well.

Again, that kind of points to the load being rss related, as the rss get will be very low volume in terms of total bytes transmitted.

[MHD]

And yet still no metatags.

However, if that was the number of guests on the server and it isn't RSS related, we're going to have to move to a better connection very soon.

Hmm.. there isnt either!

[Nnnnsic]

You know, if it were RSS related, I'd expect I'd be able to see that the guests were looking over the "new posts" or something like that.

When the number fluctuates again, we'll have to see what the guests are doing to see if that is indeed coming from a RSS related issue.

[gstark]

I thought about that too, but I don't think so. The queries being returned are the 15 most recent topics, and I suspect that the lattermost of those is what's being reported.

We can certainly try a small test of that from home later today.

[Mj]

Is the reason many sites end up turning off services like rss.
You can be killed with kindness you know !!!

[Nnnnsic]

Yes...

Well, while ya'll compiled a list of things for us to change, we compiled lists of people we'd like to change.

[gstark]

I've just added a couple of minor changes to the code that lets me see who is on an RSS feed. When I just checked, there were 7 guests reporting RSS feed as their page ...

I suspect I may have been correct, but only time will tell.

[leek]

Well I had 2 RSS feeds running... One at home and one at work... However, they are both set to only update on an hourly basis... Would I still show up as a guest between those updates??

[gstark]

The session remains alive for about 5 minutes, so no.

And while I have to support your decision to update on an hourly basis, I'm wondering how many messages you're missing. The feed provides the 15 most recent messages, and during busy times you might be underfeeding yourself and thus missing some messages.

[leek]

The session remains alive for about 5 minutes, so no.

And while I have to support your decision to update on an hourly basis, I'm wondering how many messages you're missing. The feed provides the 15 most recent messages, and during busy times you might be underfeeding yourself and thus missing some messages.

Aha... that would explain why I kept seeing replies, but not always the original message... I may have to reduce the update timing then... (sorry)