Vik Rubenfeld Posted January 31, 2005 Posted January 31, 2005 Last night I got a link from Instapundit, causing my traffic to spike from 20-30 people online, to 200-300 people online, within a single 10-minute period. It was the fabled "Instalanche", and knocked my server offline for around 75 minutes. How does TCH handle traffic spikes like this? Would that knock a TCH site offline? The software that runs my site is the excellent Expression Engine. Thanks very much in advance for the info. Quote
GroovyFish Posted January 31, 2005 Posted January 31, 2005 no answer to your question...but Congratulations on the Instalanche!! Quote
TCH-Don Posted January 31, 2005 Posted January 31, 2005 Welcome to our forum. That should not have knocked down a server! it may have been something else. Here you have plenty of bandwidth and our servers have lots of reserves and we also have many family members using Expression Engine, without any problems. You may want to visit our blog forum if you want to ask if anyone here has had any problems. Quote
Vik Rubenfeld Posted January 31, 2005 Author Posted January 31, 2005 Hi Don, and thanks for the welcome! Here's what the host emailed me as the reason my site was offline for an hour or so: The server load went up really fast which caused the refused connections. So it sounds like it was the traffic that did it in that case. I'm very glad to hear that sort of traffic spike would be easy to handle here. Quote
Deverill Posted February 1, 2005 Posted February 1, 2005 Not to discourage you from moving here and joining our family because I obviously believe in TCH as the best host anywhere, but if such a spike caused you to go over your plan's bandwidth your site would be suspended until you contacted the support staff and worked out a bandwidth increase. They are very good about boosting the bandwidth as soon as a customer tells them they have run out and need help but they also don't monitor the usage to see if anyone goes over so you'd be responsible to notify them of the situation. Congrats on the Instalanche! Quote
LisaJill Posted February 1, 2005 Posted February 1, 2005 Just because I know that Vik is going to ask.... you'll get a warning when 80% of your bandwidth has been used up. Depending on how big the spike is, you might be able to get in the request before the 100% mark. At 100% the system automatically suspends. The warning will be an email, so it is important that you use a NON-domain email, like gmail or some such. In case you do go over suddenly, if the email goes to your domain account - you might not get it. But there is some warning, so it all depends on his big the flood is. =) Quote
Deverill Posted February 1, 2005 Posted February 1, 2005 Great point, Lisa! Thanks for filling in that gap! Quote
Vik Rubenfeld Posted February 2, 2005 Author Posted February 2, 2005 Not to discourage you from moving here and joining our family because I obviously believe in TCH as the best host anywhere, but if such a spike caused you to go over your plan's bandwidth your site would be suspended until you contacted the support staff and worked out a bandwidth increase. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Perfectly understandable. Is that the monthly limit on bandwidth, or is there also a moment-by-moment limit on bandwidth? -Vik Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted February 2, 2005 Posted February 2, 2005 That would be your monthly bandwidth. Quote
Vik Rubenfeld Posted February 2, 2005 Author Posted February 2, 2005 Very good. That would work very well. I appreciate it that you get a warning if you get to 80% of your bandwidth. Quote
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