RPG-works.net

[Razi]

Does anyone else keep getting this page when the website is unavailable due to high traffic? Or is that just me?

 

[Dawsey]

I just got it for the first time

 

[Marc]

yeah most of the time, high traffic because some play-off game or something!

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

503 Service Temporarily Unavailble

I just got it for the first time too.

 

[Simster]

Well over 200 people are looking at this board at lunchtime this week...

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

"Currently Active Users: 214"

Might have something to do with it!

 

[Razi]

Yeah, it's not the high traffic that I was curious about - but more the fact that the site redirects to the RPG-works.net 503 error page. Kinda odd, no?

 

[Marc]

where the server is located Razi

 

[Razi]

That'd make sense. But cant we have our own 503 error page for NSC? Maybe something like:

"Sorry, but due to the high volumes of traffic generated by our provincial support, NSC is currently unavailable. However, why not use this temporary downtime to write a letter to John Prescott, etc. etc."

And what kind of RPG is it? Never bothered looking at their site yet. Better not be pen 'n paper.

 

[Marc]

NSC is just one big Role Playing Game

 

[Bozza]

RPG are, obviously, our hosts. Given the usage that NSC can have - we get a very, very good deal indeed.

Unfortunately, at absolute peak times, you will get a 'too busy' message but it never lasts more than it takes to press back and then refresh several times.

Not ideal, but workable I think.

 

[Razi]

Yah, not complaining, just wondered why we kept getting RPG's 503 error and not one of our own =)

Just curious, but what is NSC's monthly bandwith like?

 

[Bozza]

I don't look at it much these days - but we have had days where we've hit nearly 5gb. Turning off the ability to attach images from your local machine has helped reduce this. Our limit is 100GB/month.

With our previous hosts, I would get charged £5 per GB for everything over 40GB/month - it could and did get expensive when NSC was busy.

 

[Gazwag]

As I'm a still a fairly new member what happen on 28th October 2003 to generate the record number of NSC users on line?

 

[Razi]

Ouch. Anything over 40GB p/m starts to get expensive, so a host with 100GB p/m allowance is truely a blessing.

 

[aftershavedave]

bit surprised they can't spell unavailable !