[Jim Robinson]

Thank you very much.

By the way, our traffic more than doubled on election day and the server held up very well after John installed the new nginx software package. We had 478,559 visits from 273,808 unique visitors and delivered 2,926,290 pageviews. We peaked at 214,298 pageviews per hour at 6:00 pm pacific. In the days prior we were peaking at around 75,000 pageviews per hour and couldn’t handle the load. We had been averaging just over a million pageviews per day. I’d say John did fine.

[3Fingas]

Thanks for providing us this forum in which to meet other patriots.

[HannibalHamlinJr]

I'd say John did more than fine ... and as a nerd myself, he deserves the same thanks as you, I should have said that.

We peaked at 214,298 pageviews per hour at 6:00

Not bad, and more impressive given that (I think) he was still battling DB stuff.

The nerds never get the credit ... of course, that just increases our virtue in terms of humility, we tell ourselves.

In-memory application level dataset caching for probably 15 seconds or 30 seconds is the secret to going to 1 Million views per hour. Session level for configuration of the site for individual users, maybe some abstraction can be done there too. But it sounds like John has a handle on it. Fiddling with DB interaction during busy times is always ... not smart ...

Best til next time ...