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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.

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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RowanMumsnet · 11/10/2013 09:57

Hello hello

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

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.

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JustineMumsnet · 11/10/2013 13:52

We do have a plan re servers as it happens. It was already in place before Beakergate but obviously that has made it even more of an obvious priority.

A brief bit of background for those interested... because MN is so old we have a slightly weird set up whereby historically every time we've run out of server space we've replaced our old server with a newer, faster, bigger one. This is costly and not a particularly sensible way of running things (too much reliance on one server). We've been doing tonnes of work behind the scenes (Tech's been on this for months and months and months) to allow us to move from one to multiple servers which are more flexible and can deal better with surges, as well as more efficacious. Basically it's all about getting the servers to talk to eachother so they hold identical info in real time (in incredibly layman's terms).

Anyway, we are not far off the first migration from one to two servers - a matter of weeks in fact, so fingers crossed it will all work MUCH better and were something to go viral again, we'll be able to stop things falling over. That's the plan. For anything more in depth I'll have to get Tech out of the shed, but am loathe to interrupt his banging for obvious reasons.

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JustineMumsnet · 11/10/2013 13:53

Oh and yes do please click the ads and shop using mall, discount partners, weekly deals. Every little helps. .

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Tech · 11/10/2013 18:06

Hi all, we do have more than one server, a separate db server etc (more than one actually), but we have a pinch point related to caching that means many talk requests have to go to a single application server. That's what Justine means by "the server" and that is the issue that we are looking to address currently by switching to a different caching system and different underlying app server software, which will allow us to "scale horizontally" more easily in future, bring in extra servers on demand for spikes etc. But it's a huge change so we are scheduling it in bits. We should get there soon.

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