Did anyone else notice?

[Emma Turner]

We had 158 users on L.O.L. at the same time on Fri March 16th! That's a lot of loachy people in one place.

[Mark in Vancouver]

It's a cult!

[hemi]

when i tryed to log in it told me the server reached its maximun users
i thought it was for like mantinence or something

[shari2]

Funny. I got the same message on the 26th.
Wonder if there is a 'limit' on number of people logged on?

[Martin Thoene]

I mailed Jeff to bring his attention to this.

Martin.

[tglassburner]

I as well get this message about once a week I have the exact text saved at home I will post it later, when I get home.

[Emma Turner]

The site was very very very slow for me yesterday, but I don't know if that was due to the amount of people on-line. I never thought to check that at the time.

Emma

[Graeme Robson]

It's............................ Superb!!

[shari2]

Yeah, I mailed the message to him as well, the day I first got it. . .

[shafer]

Wow, 158 users at one time! That's pretty good.

You get that error message when there are more than 15 users manipulating the forum (loading a page, posting a new message) at the same instant of time. Just sitting and reading a page doesn't count as "doing something". So, I guess it takes about 150+ people reading the forum to randomly get 15 people loading a page at the exact same second.

This is a policy limitation of the shared webserver and can only be "fixed" through the application of more money to the ISP's account. People have brought it to my attention several times last year, but because it's so random, and fixes itself almost instantly, it hasn't been a big issue to fix.

Please let me know if you get the error frequently enough to be annoying! (I assume we have peak hours and slow hours, so it might be interesting to know if this only happens on Wednesday nights from 7-9pm, or if it's happening every night for many hours).

Thanks,

Jeff