Marvin's got a new toy
Back in the beginning we were counting the number of hits Comic Rank got by days, then by hours. Now, just 2 years down the line, we're counting hits per second. Pretty amazing stuff right there.
This kind of load just couldn't hold with our previous hosting, and this year the bulging got a bit unsightly. About 2 weeks ago we started throttling the connections to the Comic Rank buttons and bought ourselves a shiny, clean new server.
We don't like throwing money around the place but this new server comes with one all-important feature: it was ours. Out with Apache and in with a super-lightweight nginx webserver and we're instantly 40 times more efficient. It's amazing, it doesn't break 0.3% of our CPU, even at peak times.
So now we're in the waiting process again; waiting for views to flow in, waiting for readers to add up, waiting for that all important number to pat me on the back and say "s'cool".
This current move is just affecting the underbelly of Comic Rank, for now there wont be any changes on the Comic Rank site but things are in the works and this server move gives us a lot more opportunities.
Most of you will not need to do anything, everything is peachy as-is. But remember I said we're throttling the buttons? That doesn't apply to the "view.comicrank.com" buttons which are housed on our nice new server, but it does still apply to older "comicrank.com/view/" buttons! So, if you've still got old codes on your site then you should probably think about changing them. Go to your user panel on Comic Rank to get some of that lovely new server space while its still hot.
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When do you expect to get the new server up and running? *sounds like a reporter*
We're still having a few load issues with the new server but are counting up the readers at the same time. We hope to re-enable the site in about a week.
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