Phew, what a night. At around 9:30pm last night the site became unloadable because of a large increase in traffic and that continued until gone 1 am. What the heck are people searching about the general election in mass at gone midnight!!!
It’s taken hours to get the site working correctly again and I only got it working at gone 1 am by installing caching software (it makes the site run faster by not connecting to the database for every visitor), but this is affecting the polls.
Not sure how bad the issue is yet, I think people can vote, but the result isn’t loading right away because pages are cached (visitors are getting old pages basically and see the vote still available option).
I’ll probably find a fix, but the election is today and I plan to close the main general election poll today anyway, so not a big loss if I can’t fix it now.
I guess we are in for a lot of traffic today if at 9pm the night before the election there’s enough traffic to bring the dedicated server I run the site on to it’s knees!
David
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