It’s not a job, it’s an adventure!!
What an interesting 24hrs.
I got involved in this Temple of Elemental Evil modding group. Basically the idea is to go through and fix all the bugs that Troika didn’t have time/weren’t allowed to fix… a good idea and something that attracted some highly motived, highly skilled people.
The problem is that the group’s efforts were in such demand, and so many people wanted to help and contribute, that the team kept going through servers. The server they were using three days or so ago, http://ussbrowarek.org/~ausir/toee/forum/ hit critical mass and promptly fell over. The problem appeared to be to do with the database, not the bandwidth, I had a database and unlimited bandwidth, right? So yesterday at 1pm I opened my temporary messageboard to the group.
24 hrs later I pulled the plug, made the directory unviewable and sent a mass email to the users of the board. In the 24 hrs the following happened…
1) The host let me know that they had changed the structure of their accounts. I gain 998 MySQL accounts, and lost the unlimited bandwidth.
2) 311 people registered.
3) 427 articles were posted.
4) The showthread.php file of the boards was accessed 7253 times.
5) The total traffic to the same file, was 274MB
6) In total the page generated over 800MB in data.
This of course, took me slightly over my limit, but was threatening to hit about 100MB per hour at about midday today. Which is why it got shut down.
A slightly different day for me in any case…