[CaptainYooh]

Originally Posted by Vox

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The site originally ran on a single server, now it runs on two virtual servers with a total of six CPU cores, on a 1Gb/s internal network on top of a 48 spindle RAID10 SAN. Over the years the site and the hardware have been upgraded every six months or so. When we took over it ran about 15% capacity on normal days an peaked around 50%. Now I'd say it runs around 30% capacity and peaks at around 80%-90% on trade deadline and draft day. I do cheat and often add a 4th CPU on days I know will be bad to make sure there is additional headroom. Originally we'd see about 40Mb/s traffic between the servers which doubles during busy times. And we averaged about 2Mb/s sustained external to the users, but that increased easily to 10Mb/s of sustained data during deadline days. This is going by memory though - I don't have access to that data right now to confirm. I would think those have doubled as well today. If I have time I'll sit down and take a formal look. I've posted the usage stats a few times over the years for the techno geeks like me, but I haven't done it in a while. One thing that is interesting is that the users have increased far faster than resource consumption. This could be partially due to a couple of rounds of newer hardware, but I think it is a real testament to how well Photon has done optimizing the site over the years. I think his efforts need to be appreciated more by all of us - he does a LOT behind the scenes to keep us getting our information in seconds instead of 10s of seconds. ...

I don't understand any of this. But it's freakin' impressive!