Omnimaga
Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on September 18, 2010, 12:42:21 am
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The end of the programming contest, despite most participants being very busy on their respective entries, has brought Omnimaga forum activity up to the level it was before Summer vacations started. Since Omnimaga exists, rare were the times where we had at least 5 days in a row above 200 posts, even since the release of Ndless when we started breaking activity records every month. In fact, after the January 2006 streak it took 4.5 more years before the next one arrives. Afterward, they started becoming more common, even during Summertime.
So far in Omnimaga history such streak happened 8 times. Here they are below, with the streak length in parenthesizes and the daily post counts afterward:
Jan 7-11 2006 (5 days): 219, 227, 230, 245, 263
Jun 15-19 2010 (5 days): 250, 363, 354, 261, 367
Jun 21-25 2010 (5 days): 356, 446, 429, 289, 241
Jul 19-23 2010 (5 days): 462, 267, 455, 248, 224
Aug 2-11 2010 (10 days): 306, 313, 261, 257, 410, 406, 212, 204, 229, 209
Aug 22-26 2010 (5 days): 233, 322, 304, 256, 297
Aug 30-Sep 4 2010 (6 days): 238, 284, 336, 288, 355, 207
Sep 11-Sep 17 2010 (7 days as for now): 302, 374, 416, 309, 336, 443, 247
And as you can see in the last one, we just had a streak of 6 days with at least 300 posts each, which is a first for Omnimaga community
Still on the subject of statistics, it looks like this month alone, omnimaga.org will have 1 million requests. The site is also approaching the 50000 posts bar for this year (more than 3 times what we had in 2009) and it could be very possible that in 2010, we will have more activity than everything we got during the entire time we were on Invisionfree (and Zetaboards) from May 2005 to March 2008.
We are also starting to get some new forum members again, but we cannot tell if the increase was considerable, as one of our anti-spam stopped working following changes on 1and1 side.
Talking about hosting, it looks like Surpasshosting shared hosting is out of the question, as it seems very similar to 1and1 in terms of shared hosting reliability (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overselling#Web_hosting). If we are put on a crowded server, this won't help us much. We might be looking for another type of hosting eventually (such as one suggested by Alberthrocks, the guy who coded the new SpyBot45).
UPDATE (Sept 20th 12:04 AM: The latest streak of 200-post days has continued for a few more days now with another 400+ day. Wacky Fun Random Numbar Generator v1.0000069 Axe Remake by Snake_X is sure very popular! ;D)
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Yay! Moar forum activity!
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As for the hosting, maybe someone with a spare computer could set up a server?
What type is alberthrocks hosting?
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I would rather choose a host with a long term reputation (that has been open for years) rather than someone's random host. I tend to not trust the later because there are more chances to be shut down than anything else and is usually not maintained as much (e.g: Juju's VPS having no DDoS attack protection and often going down and taking days to go back up). As for Alberthrocks he uses a VPS. I personally was aiming for one of those plans: http://hostfolks.com/hosting/vps/
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That adds up to over 9000!
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WHAT?!? 9,000!!! BUT THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT!
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WHAT?!? 9,000!!! BUT THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT!
If you add together the number of posts of days in a row from those 8 periods, it should come to 14548. Feel free to check my math.
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WHAT?!? 9,000!!! BUT THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT!
If you add together the number of posts of days in a row from those 8 periods, it should come to 14548. Feel free to check my math.
Nope, 2 off. I believe it's 14550. :P
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Nice. * ZTrumpet hands everyone one (1) cherry flavored pudding cup each. ^-^
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I would rather choose a host with a long term reputation (that has been open for years) rather than someone's random host. I tend to not trust the later because there are more chances to be shut down than anything else and is usually not maintained as much (e.g: Juju's VPS having no DDoS attack protection and often going down and taking days to go back up). As for Alberthrocks he uses a VPS. I personally was aiming for one of those plans: http://hostfolks.com/hosting/vps/
Well, I have 2 VPSes, my personal one didn't got any DDoS attacks ever and is reliable, the other, belonging to my community, gets DDoS'd because we pretty much gave everyone shell accounts on it and some group of trolls hates us. So as long you won't give everyone on Omnimaga access to the server, you're in business.
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Ah ok. Well, the only ones that would have access would most likely be the established admins over here plus Rcfreak0, Geekboy1011 and maybe Tribal. However at first I would probably mess around a bit before giving access to many people, in case I forget to tell them to not do something in particular.
WHAT?!? 9,000!!! BUT THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT!
If we averaged at 300.0333 posts for a 30 day month, 290.355 for a 31 day month, 321.46 for a February (or 310.38 on a leap year), we would have just over 9000 posts in one month.
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FWIW, GCC4TI, the RSALS BOINC grid and Hackspire are all hosted on dedicated servers (between other things on said servers), http://www.online.net/ . I don't know about the conditions for renting a server there.
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Are those hosted in Europe? Personally, since the majority of Omnimaga users live in USA I would prefer choosing a VPS located there. On TI-BANK website it takes about 10 seconds before pages finishes loading on my side, even though some people there said it loaded in an instant. It's even worse with websites hosted in Asia, though.
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Yes, the Dedibox servers are hosted in France.
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I guess I'M out of luck for that, then. I'm still looking at web hosts to see if there are any that are similar to what Alberthrocks suggested. It's guaranteed any shared hosting is out of the question, since the non-overseller type of shared hosting only offers about 1 GB of diskspace for their most expensive plans of about $40 a month.
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Hmm, I believe this needs to be updated:
Sep 11-Sep 17 2010 (7 days as for now): 302, 374, 416, 309, 336, 443, 247
Sep 11-Sep 24 2010 (14 days as for now): 302, 374, 416, 309, 336, 443, 247, 359, 479, 297, 220, 329, 363, 205
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Yeah I thought I would do it, but we don't know yet if that streak ended (I think it might, this weekend, noticing the lower inactivity in the past days, especially at night), plus it would look weird on the news on lower resolutions. I guess I'll see later. Maybe I could do another update at the end of the month, Idk.