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Originally Posted by teamchachi
We're back to the old problem of having to capacity plan for a 99th percentile event.
Yes, it would be great if the server was "snappy" when there are 1000+ concurrent users hammering on it. However, the costs associated with additional hardware, colocation, and bandwidth are prohibitive. What we have works very well and has tons of excess capacity 99% of the time.
Do we really want to have to raise a bunch of money and then double (at least) our monthly costs just so the server can perform well during "one off" events?
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I think, and most people here would probably agree, that there is some importance in CP being accessible when something big happens.
But, I think most people would also agree that adding a bigger and better server just to make CP accessible for 1% of the time, when its just fine 99% of the other time, especially when it would increase costs, makes absolutely no sense.
So, what are the options? Obviously its a concern that the server is having issues when over a 1,000 people connect, and I suspect that as the season goes on, and the Flames are as successful as we all hope, more and more people will sign up or start coming to CP.
Photon talked about adding a bigger processor? More memory? Would it cost more money to simply modify the server we have now? We have enough bandwidth right?