can you tell people are excited?

[DHonks]

94+ people for the second straight day! When I was posting around noon yesterday, there were 2 or 3 users. Pretty sweet. Way to go Brian et al. This is where fans go to share their enthusiasm

[squarepusher]

101 users right now.... I don't think I remember a higher number ever.

[pogokat]

two words:

 

Andy Marte

 

its like field of dreams...mention a huge prospect, and they will come

[950opsLHcatcher]

118. It's draft day-esque.

 

Edit: There were 120 at one point.

[MassBrew]

There were 120 at one point.

 

Heck, that almost matches the number of Podsednik threads in the Trade Rumors forum...

[squarepusher]

156 people right now.

 

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that there's more people on the site in the offseason than during the regular season? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[jwaltz]

I think it shows that this site is starting to become pretty well known among Brewer fans. I know I have personally told a lot of people about it. Probably the same with some of the others. Congrats Brian.

[thevaccinator27]

I saw over 190 just a minute or two ago. I think it was 194.

[PeaveyFury]

The records are going to be shattered today, I think.

[950opsLHcatcher]

240. Badda-bing.

[DHonks]

Once again, congrats fellas. You have created the site where Die-hard fans come together to get excited, and you also apparently are now a prime source for some visitors.

[Katuluu]

Prime source is probably an understatement.

[UndraftedFA]

i seen 244. At least I'm not the only one who waste his life away reading about the Brewers!

 

My sis is mad, I just called and told her that her Podsednik jersey is no longer accurate.

[Frisbee Slider]

Not that I'm computer savvy, but I've been having a lotta trouble accessing the site in recent days. Fair to assume, its caused by the high-traffic?

[squarepusher]

You are correct... it's been getting shelled.

[mothershipconnection]

Kudos on keeping the site up throughout all of this madness. With more traffic than draft day which brought the server to its knees, the site has worked like usual over the last few days.

[squarepusher]

The forums are doing OK, but they're housed on some monster servers at EZBoard that are meant to handle large traffic.

 

The "main" site died a few times yesterday. I'm trying to figure out what the bottleneck is that kills it when traffic is high.

 

EDIT: I'm thinking the bottleneck has to do with the images contained in the forums. Each time an image is requested (usually if someone hits a page for the first time or a user hits refresh), a hit is made at the "main" site. Each image on this page (all of the team names and their corresponding reollover images, the header image, the advertisement image, the support and fansite alliance images) count as a hit. If you get enough people refreshing on a busy day, KABOOM.

 

I'm using an image hosting service's trial membership to host just the top brewerfan.net image (the image with miller park, and the mascot in it). In less than a month, it has been request some 50,000 times, for about 698MB of bandwidth. I cap out there at 1000MB of bandwidth for free, so i'm thinking about paying for an upgrade. The less requests that get made from the "main" site, the snappier performance will be all around.

[hermanator34]

This IS a brilliant site, and thanks to Brian and the rest of the brain-trust for putting it together and making it the clear cut #1 site for Brewer news and comment on the internet!

 

You have created the site where Die-hard fans come together to get excited, and you also apparently are now a prime source for some visitors.

 

I was one of those visitors for the previous year and a half. I really should have joined in earlier, but for whatever reason didn't. I can honestly say my Brewer IQ increased dramatically just by reading the articles, forums and link reports daily. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[mothershipconnection]

The forums are doing OK, but they're housed on some monster servers at EZBoard that are meant to handle large traffic.

 

The "main" site died a few times yesterday. I'm trying to figure out what the bottleneck is that kills it when traffic is high.

I guess I've just been lucky then, as I don't think I've come to this stie and found it to be down for months now. Then again, I'm typically working (with no computer) and in class until after the rest of you guys have completed the workday when the site is bombarded the heaviest.

[ja002h]

I can honestly say my Brewer IQ increased dramatically just by reading the articles, forums and link reports daily.

 

Ain't that the truth.

[nBo Baseball]

Congradulations on the high traffic!

I guess people like what you guys are doing her.

[squarepusher]

December daily average visits (unique users, or at least, unique IP addresses) to Brewerfan:

 

2002 - 567

2003 - 1220

2004 - 2468

[ja002h]

bf.net is my daddy.

 

Can't argue with 100% growth rate.

[squarepusher]

"Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue... aay!"

 

http://www.grannygear.com/Assets/Images/Races/Snowshoe/2003/Disco_Stu_and_the_P_Funk_Allstars.jpg

[SenatorShriv]

excuse my computer illiteracy, but I have a question regarding what was posted above regarding the hits on the main page causing a bottleneck.

 

Should I change Brewerfan from my homepage? That ends up giving the site lots of extra hits when I really have no intention of cruising the site.

 

Does this affect the cost of running the site as well? I know that there was some talk about more traffic costing the site more $ to run.