In Reply to: Will WheresGeorge ever become a victim of its own success? posted by Dr.Bob on April 23, 2003 at 9:51 AM:
First, the two servers currently run well under 1% CPU utilization on average. Second, the servers are in the same building as the MAE-WEST backbone in San Jose, CA. I am in Boston, and I rarely (once or twice a year) experience any kinds of slowness or slowdowns. If you are having problems accessing the site, it's most likely a probem between your machine, your ISP, and your ISPs connection to the internet backbone. Third, very occaisionally the site gets hit all at once with requests, and the "temporarily busy" page will appear and usually go away in less than 30 seconds when the server has had a chance to catch up. That happens maybe once per week - assuming I'm not doing any back-end processing at the same time.
No, I think the site could easily double or triple in size before I have any problems hosting the database. Don't forget, before WG, my "real" job was designing and build huge data warehouses - where we would store hundreds of millions or billions of records in a database. 30 million records is not a problem to worry about.
-Hank