Glad you’ve enjoyed the site Claire.
Unfortunately on polling day around 1pm there was so much traffic to the site the dedicated server that this site is on couldn’t cope and it and pretty much died!
Before the dedicated server was unusable (it was like having your PC not even loading Windows!) there had been around 100,000 visitors to the site between 9am and 1pm! Lunch time hit and the server died presumably when people on a lunch break went online searching about the general election!!!
I eventually had to buy another dedicated server with more power and cut down on some of the sites features (like rating comments) to get it running over one day later. Got the site running again around 5pm yesterday and despite missing most of the days traffic we still managed to clock up around 50,000 visitors between 5pm and 9am the following morning!
So far today (9am to 11am) we’ve had about 6,000 visitors. Weekends are normally relatively low traffic days (Saturday/Sunday can be half the traffic of a Thursday/Friday). We might be looking at a 40,000+ visitor day, still a lot of interest since we have the deals between the Lib Dems and the Tories or Labour to come.
David
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