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What exactly is a server? is it a tangible thing? Aee they costly? Would you like us to does lots of advert clicking so you can get some more?

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ChaosTrulyReigns · 10/10/2013 19:41

I have been clicking - Tesco kitcgens won't last and they do one called Porto which was both apt and pleasing.

Can you just order servers off the shelf? Is there a shop? Hiw many more can you fit in Biscuit Towers? How many would yiu need to stop a repeat performance of the travesty that was PenisBReakerDay. Not a typo. Wink

How much much clicking do I need to do? Should I be prodding my few MN fruends to click away as well?

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TEErickOrTEEreat · 11/10/2013 12:28

Well, it couldn't hurt Because. Might make the server feel better.

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BecauseYoureGorgeous · 11/10/2013 11:05

BTW I wasn't suggesting that stroking it would help.

BecauseYoureGorgeous · 11/10/2013 10:56

"you can't run up to a box and go 'that one, Mumsnet's on there' because it could be anywhere on any SAN disk"

The SAN disk would have to be somewhere though. You could run up to that and give it a stroke.

K8Middleton · 11/10/2013 10:52

If it helps I can add my skill of cut and paste to the appeal?

Just tell me what you want cutting and where you want it pasting and by when and I'll crack on.

Sparklingbrook · 11/10/2013 10:15

Perhaps we should do a Blue Peter stylee appeal for MN to get new servers-maybe save your old tin foil or something. With a totaliser and everything.

mistlethrush · 11/10/2013 10:12

DH said that you could probably manage 1M hits quite happily with two servers and he knows of just such a site and the server architect. The trouble is that they would have cost £££££££.

I presume the trouble is that MN has grown gradually and its been a case of adding a bit more capacity when and if it is needed and there never has been a point at which change to such a system looked to be the way to go.

TEErickOrTEEreat · 11/10/2013 10:08

And blutac. Don't forget the blutac, Trills.

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RowanMumsnet · 11/10/2013 09:57

Hello hello

ad-clicking is always appreciated for gin-and-biscuits purposes, obvs Wink

We're sorry about the site performance over the last few days - there's just been a completely mahoosive traffic spike. Tis almost impossible to predict these things, as we're sure you can appreciate.

MrsWembley · 11/10/2013 09:57

Will they be using sticky-backed plastic?

haverer · 11/10/2013 09:33

That's beautiful, Trills (the bit about Victorian London, not the bit about twisty sandwich bag wires).

Trills · 11/10/2013 08:35

We should get a new server, but it must be added on with duct tape and the twisty wires from sandwich bags :o

TEErickOrTEEreat · 11/10/2013 06:06

That's a perfect analogy Trills.

Tweasels · 10/10/2013 23:49

Trills, that is a beautiful analogy. I don't think I want a new server now you've put it like that.

Kleptronic · 10/10/2013 23:41

Good analogy Trills! I will be using that in the course of my paid employment.

Trills · 10/10/2013 23:32

Thank you for posting on site stuff.

Yes it is a physical thing. Imagine its a computer. But many people who have websites don't have the physical computer in their office they just rent a "bit" of computer from people who have buildings full of computers (Amazon provide this as a service).

Depending on how the website is built it could scale up smoothly and easily simply by saying "please give us more computer, we will give you more money" but it probably doesn't because it's a lot harder to write it to be like that and MN feels very much like it has grown organically.

Think of MN being like the tube, rather than like the Tokyo metro system. Yes, it's creaky and sometimes you have to go up and down interminable stairs that seem to go nowhere, and sometimes you have to walk down crowded platform to get to the other line, but with was built by the Victorians for fucking steam trains, and nobody turned off London so they could make improvements, they had to try to add bits in while everything else was still running.

K8Middleton · 10/10/2013 23:20

Eh?

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Kleptronic · 10/10/2013 22:48

Kewf! ah Chaos, you're only after my manual...

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ChaosTrulyReigns · 10/10/2013 22:16
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OhYouBadBadKitten · 10/10/2013 22:03

That makes much sense!

TEErickOrTEEreat · 10/10/2013 21:05

Yes, BadKitten. If the CSS doesn't load, then
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this.

omletta · 10/10/2013 20:57

I think you need an extension - to house a masihooove one.

Kleptronic · 10/10/2013 20:56

Aye gin for all. Aye, knickers. The HTML comes through but the clothes do not. Racy!