Post by Steve on May 11, 2005 21:00:36 GMT
You will notice since the forum software upgrade, sometimes when you try to visit the forum you will get the above message. Hopefully it's just a short-term problem and Proboards will resolve it within a few days.
For anybody who wants to know more about it, here's a brief explanation. This forum, along with thousands (probably tens of thousands) of other forums are stored on Proboards Server No.3 - notice the 'proboards3' in the URL. Okay, so what is a server? Well, it's a high-speed, high-spec computer which controls a big bank of hard-drives, on which all the forums are stored, including this one. The server almost certainly is located in America. Now then, Proboards have just done a software upgrade on server 3, which means that today, all the forum admins will be logged in trying out the new features and fixing things, just like I have been doing this evening, also the members will be logging-in to check out what's new - this increases the volume of traffic trying to access the server and it slows everything down - that is why the Too Many Connections message appears.
Hopefully then, within a day or two the volume of traffic to the server will decrease and things will get back to normal. Also, it's possible that Proboards still have some odds and ends to tidy up on the server computer; de-fragmenting the hard-drives following the software upgrade, etc. Either way, I expect you'll see less of that message over the course of the next few days.
For anybody who wants to know more about it, here's a brief explanation. This forum, along with thousands (probably tens of thousands) of other forums are stored on Proboards Server No.3 - notice the 'proboards3' in the URL. Okay, so what is a server? Well, it's a high-speed, high-spec computer which controls a big bank of hard-drives, on which all the forums are stored, including this one. The server almost certainly is located in America. Now then, Proboards have just done a software upgrade on server 3, which means that today, all the forum admins will be logged in trying out the new features and fixing things, just like I have been doing this evening, also the members will be logging-in to check out what's new - this increases the volume of traffic trying to access the server and it slows everything down - that is why the Too Many Connections message appears.
Hopefully then, within a day or two the volume of traffic to the server will decrease and things will get back to normal. Also, it's possible that Proboards still have some odds and ends to tidy up on the server computer; de-fragmenting the hard-drives following the software upgrade, etc. Either way, I expect you'll see less of that message over the course of the next few days.
