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Most users ever online was 3,108, Today at 16:54.

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  • 21-01-2008 6:28pm
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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I never get to post those so for once..... yay!!

    \o.

    .o/

    \o/

    DeV.
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    #2
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Thats some going,I hope no smoke is coming out of the server.


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    #3
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Nice. :)


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    #4
    shanethemofo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭shanethemofo


    Very Niiiice


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    #5
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    2,563 of them were bubbles.

    </obligatory_bubbles_joke>


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    #6
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,633 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    I guess no one does any work on a monday afternoon at 5pm except me! :D


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    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    DeVore wrote: »
    I never get to post those so for once..... yay!!

    \o.

    .o/

    \o/

    DeV.
    :)


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    #8
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Brace for impact!


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    #9
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Could it be any significance that today is meant to be the unhappiest day of the year...?


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    /refills hamster's Lucozade and Red Bull bottles.


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Dub13 wrote: »
    Could it be any significance that today is meant to be the unhappiest day of the year...?

    Clearly that is tosh of the highest order, today is the happiest of the year so far. Practically delirious in fact.

    What % of the population (4.2 million) was online at 16.54?

    Mike.


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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    A better question is what percentage of people who were *capable* of being here, were here. Whats the installed base of internet connections in Ireland again?

    The servers (plural :) ) seem to be coping very nicely, I dont think we are pushing the limits yet. We know we are at the limit when that number ceases to rise regularly... we were stuck at 2k for a long time while the servers were overloaded.

    Now we have a *collection* of hamsters!

    DeV.


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    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    mike65 wrote: »
    Clearly that is tosh of the highest order, today is the happiest of the year so far. Practically delirious in fact

    Welsh psychologist Cliff Arnall would disagree with you on that Mike,he even has a formula worked out.;)
    The formula is [W+(D-d)] x T divided by MxNA, according to Mr Arnall, who specialises in confidence and happiness.


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    Oman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭Oman


    DeVore wrote: »
    I never get to post those so for once..... yay!!

    Meh i did it once


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    re Dub13

    Oh I'm aware of the formula (I blogged about it elsewhere today) but if over 3,000 people were on boards at one moment + the thousands who dipped in at any point, then clearly happiness was in the accendancy ;)

    Mike.


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    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    mike65 wrote: »
    but if over 3,000 people were on boards at one moment + the thousands who dipped in at any point, then clearly happiness was in the accendancy ;)

    Not if they were all in Personal Issue's....:)


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    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    DeVore wrote: »
    A better question is what percentage of people who were *capable* of being here, were here. Whats the installed base of internet connections in Ireland again?

    The servers (plural :) ) seem to be coping very nicely, I dont think we are pushing the limits yet. We know we are at the limit when that number ceases to rise regularly... we were stuck at 2k for a long time while the servers were overloaded.

    Now we have a *collection* of hamsters!

    DeV.


    http://www.internetworldstats.com/eu/ie.htm
    (out of date) says that there is 2,060,000 Internet users in Ireland

    Which would Work out ( Very roughly)
    That 1.5% of all internet users in ireland were on boards @ 16:54pm

    Not bad!


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    #18
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Dub13

    Fair point. :) Have the admins got the list of most users down the years?

    Mike.


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    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    DeV,

    What are the Stats like for the weekend...?I no it dips a bit naturally but IMO it has been getting busier here at the weekends.


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    Rew
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    Jaysus, How much bandwith is bords.ie averaging per sec these days?


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    #21
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Boardsis still behind a few porn sites and a polish site in the irish rankings though. :p


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    #22
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    We're easily into Terrabytes a month at the moment.

    Two million Internet users in Ireland?!? Thats a joke! Christ, I doubt there are 2M computers with a modem/wireless installed in the country myself.

    2M would be half the population!


    As for the weekends, we pretty much consistently have done about half the traffic on the weekends as on the weekdays (you bunch of slackers!).
    I'll check the details now and see if that has changed.

    DeV.


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    #23
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    our Visits per Day has risen to about 70K at the moment (as defined by Google) and on the weekends its about 45-50k.

    I was wrong before, it has been running at about 2/3rds of the weekday average and so it doesnt seem signifcantly up but it is up from last year.

    DeV.


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    #24
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    .15%, not 1.5% :) just an order of magnitude off :P


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    #25
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    DeVore wrote: »
    it has been running at about 2/3rds of the weekday average and so it doesnt seem signifcantly up but it is up from last year.

    Maybe the weekend posters are just more active and posting more often so that would mean we are both right...;)


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    #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bah, and there I was working today. Obviously I was taking up some of the slackers' work.


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    #27
    Asok
    Registered Users Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Asok


    In the last 30 days we did around 2.4 TB in and 14.2 TB out
    Average outbound of around 8MB/s and about 2MB/s in.

    Those are pretty rough figures, I could come up with better but tis time for fewd!


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    TimTim
    Registered Users Posts: 804 ✭✭✭TimTim


    Asok wrote: »
    In the last 30 days we did around 2.4 TB in and 14.2 TB out
    Average outbound of around 8MB/s and about 2MB/s in.

    Those are pretty rough figures, I could come up with better but tis time for fewd!

    Have the BW stats increased by much since the server upgrade?


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    #29
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    The visitor stats have rocketed. Before, we would crawl to a stop at about 2200 users. Now with the new 5 server rig and 2 database servers we can handle 3100 without breaking a sweat by the looks of it.

    Dev.


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    #30
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,633 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Given the growth of the site in recent times, would it be possible somehow to contact previous or stale posters via email to get some feedback on why they no longer post here etc?

    While the survey done last year (or thereabouts) provided useful information on those of us who are active, it would probably be even more useful to have feedback from users who dont post that often anymore or at all anymore?


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    #31
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    I'm sure there are a bunch of people who hate our guts. I'm sure if we contacted all the people who dont post here any more I'm sure we'd get a right earful...

    I dont think thats a particularly useful earful either. Many of them were weeded out because they simply dont play well with others and can't co-habitate on our little island on the internet.

    DeV.


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