OCAU Forums Online Users Record

Latest revision as of 20:31, 5 March 2010

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Current record: Most users ever online was 2,076, Today at 5:20 AM.

The current record was set when a forum thread was linked on Slashdot, resulting in a massive spike in guest users.

Records:

2076 - 27th August 2009 - Gigs' Concrete Slab Watercooling hit the front page of Slashdot, a week after we moved to the new servers.
1495 - 11th January 2009 - Rainwulf's Project Monolith linked on Engadget
1188 - 14th October 2008 - Again nothing in particular, people reported Whirlpool slow, perhaps that helped.
1165 - 1st September 2008 - Another one due to gradual growth and forum guests
1147 - 11th August 2008 - This one just happened without any organising, not sure why :)
1143 - 11th of February 2008 - Organised record break attempt by Vulkanyaz - first one with guest browsing enabled
1100 - 27th February 2007 - Organised record break attempt by -KoMoD0-
1059 - 6th March 2006 - Organised record break attempt by WaLLLY
829 - 9th August 2005 - About 10 minutes after the successful landing of the highly publicised Space Shuttle Discovery. There were also some mis-priced Dell HDD's.
808 - 9th August 2004 - Big Brother 2004 ended
652 - 13th January 2004 - SCO versus the rest of the world (IBM and Novell by then)
612 - ?
607 - 5th August 2003 - SCO versus Unix?
542 - 26th February 2003 - ISOnews closed, taken over by US Government
528 - ?
486 - 3rd June 2002
427 - 20th May 2002
422 - 9th April 2002
404 - 26th Feb 2002
267 - 29th October 2001
244 - 29th August 2001
205 - 30th July 2001

Entries marked with ? are mentioned in later news posts but I couldn't find the date for them.

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-'''Current record:''' ''Most users ever online was 1100 on 27th February 2007 at 09:23 PM''
+Back to [[OCAU]]
-The current record was achieved in an attempt to beat the previous attempt of 1059 people. BBQ went down for about an hour or so, and then the record was achieved at 9:23PM (GMT+10). The alterior motive for this record attempt was to test the new addition of MySQL Replication that Agg put in.
+'''Current record:''' ''Most users ever online was 2,076, Today at 5:20 AM.''
-The previous record was achieved in an attempt both [http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=453922 break the 1000+ users online] mark and give the new database server [http://pcdb.overclockers.com.au/view.php?page=stats&name=OCAU-BBQ BBQ] - which replaced [http://pcdb.overclockers.com.au/view.php?page=stats&name=OCAU-Pie Pie] - a decent workout.
-[[Image:1100_users.PNG|thumb|Breaking the Record once again, 1095 Users online [1100 Record].]]
+The current record was set when a forum thread was linked on Slashdot, resulting in a massive spike in guest users.
-[[Image:Banner.jpg|thumb|A screen capture of when [[OCAU Server Hardware|BBQ]] died during the most recent stress test.]]
-[[Image:Ocau1000-small.jpg|thumb|A screen capture of the forums hitting 1000 users for the first time.]]
-[[Image:1055users.jpg|thumb|A screen capture from the database stresstest.]]
-The 1000+ users thread also probably set a record for fastest growing thread with just under 500 posts from 8-9PM AEST.
-'''Previous records:'''
+'''Records:'''
+* 2076 - 27th August 2009 - [http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=800958 Gigs' Concrete Slab Watercooling] hit the front page of Slashdot, a week after we moved to the [http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/OCAU_Server_Hardware new servers].
+* 1495 - 11th January 2009 - [http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=744914 Rainwulf's Project Monolith] linked on Engadget
+* 1188 - 14th October 2008 - Again nothing in particular, people reported Whirlpool slow, perhaps that helped.
+* 1165 - 1st September 2008 - Another one due to gradual growth and forum guests
+* 1147 - 11th August 2008 - This one just happened without any organising, not sure why :)
+* 1143 - 11th of February 2008 - Organised record break attempt by Vulkanyaz - first one with guest browsing enabled
 * 1100 - 27th February 2007 - Organised record break attempt by -KoMoD0-
 * 1059 - 6th March 2006 - Organised record break attempt by WaLLLY
-* 829 - 9th August 2005 - About 10 minutes after the successful landing of the highly publicized Space Shuttle Discovery. There were also some [http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking/dell-error-a-hard-bargain-for-buyers/2005/08/11/1123353431407.html mis-priced Dell HDD's].
+* 829 - 9th August 2005 - About 10 minutes after the successful landing of the highly publicised Space Shuttle Discovery. There were also some [http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking/dell-error-a-hard-bargain-for-buyers/2005/08/11/1123353431407.html mis-priced Dell HDD's].
 * 808 - 9th August 2004 - Big Brother 2004 ended
-* 652 - 13th January 2004 SCO versus the rest of the world (IBM and Novell by then)
+* 652 - 13th January 2004 - SCO versus the rest of the world (IBM and Novell by then)
 * 612 - ?
 * 607 - 5th August 2003 - SCO versus Unix?
-* 542 - 26th February 2003 ISOnews closed, taken over by US Government
+* 542 - 26th February 2003 - ISOnews closed, taken over by US Government
 * 528 - ?
 * 486 - 3rd June 2002
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 * 244 - 29th August 2001
 * 205 - 30th July 2001
 Entries marked with ? are mentioned in later news posts but I couldn't find the date for them.
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