12 minutes after opening -- 500 people online

[vBMechanic]

The new Howard Stern Forums are running vBulletin!

[Floris]

Yeah, I noticed he wanted a license, and I am glad he got it running, good luck howard! enjoy vbulletin.

[Xenon]

who's howard stern?

anyone you should know?

but 500 people after 12 mins isn't bad ^^

[Wayne Luke]

He is a shock jock in the United States. Probably the most syndicated show there is though.

They have been working on that site for a month now and it is amazing how far they have gotten in the last week because when I last saw it, it was still vBulletin Blue. I believe they are running it on 2 Quad Xeon Machines with MegaRam.

[Floris]

Nearing 1000 online users now, the forum isn't lagging at all Email registration and posting, etc .. went perfectly. vBulletin at its finest

[vBMechanic]

4 server cluster they havent even put an announcement up on the main website-- those people are just ones who randomly clicked a link thats been dead for a month.

[Wayne Luke]

Kind of helps that he has been in the news the last few days. Just expanded his show to 9 cities, including several markets that had kicked him out in the past and said "You will never work in this town again".

Maybe I should drop them an email and go visit the data center since the site is hosted in Los Angeles.

[Zachery]

Hmm, now how do we get a spot on the show to plug it?

[Zachery]

That was short lived..


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[vBMechanic]

1100 after an hour...

Can vBulletin accurately tell *NIX server load when it's clustered? It was topping out the load limit of 100 even though the site was moving fine.

[The Prohacker]

1100 after an hour...

Can vBulletin accurately tell *NIX server load when it's clustered? It was topping out the load limit of 100 even though the site was moving fine.

It can get the load of the web server you are currently hitting.. Its not 100% accurate.. Getting the database server and the web server combined would be better.. But that would require a hack..

Seems they haven't .htaccess'd the admincp.. Atleast they are running the getnew/gettoday hack from vB.org: http://www.howardstern.com/boards/search.php?do=getnew
That alone can take down a huge forum..

1100 though is great

[vBMechanic]

It can get the load of the web server you are currently hitting.. Its not 100% accurate.. Getting the database server and the web server combined would be better.. But that would require a hack..

Seems they haven't .htaccess'd the admincp.. Atleast they are running the getnew/gettoday hack from vB.org: http://www.howardstern.com/boards/search.php?do=getnew
That alone can take down a huge forum..

1100 though is great

Someone is on top of things Yup missing .htaccess though.

[Zachery]

Yea, me and floris both emailed them about that

Few other problems ive seen with the boards, i emailed the admin

[The Prohacker]

They better be as I'm sure this could round up around 2k users online.. Dual quads can do a lot but they will need to be tuned to make this hum at full speed

[Zachery]

8 Xeon processors... if that cant handle somthing i dunno what can