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 1,143 11th of February, 2008, at 09:10 PM''
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-The current record was achieved in an attempt to beat the previous attempt of 1100 people. Unlike the previous record attempt, there was no catastrophic failure of the server, nor was Agg drunk and unable to fiddle with the server, even though this was not required for this record.
+'''Current record:''' ''Most users ever online was 2,076, Today at 5:20 AM.''
-The record was broken successively over the course of the period, finally achieving 1143 users online at once.  Note that this was the first record set with guest viewing enabled since OCAU moved to VBulletin.  Only 2 subforums have guest access allowed, but this no doubt helped reach the record.
+The current record was set when a forum thread was linked on Slashdot, resulting in a massive spike in guest users.
-'''Previous records:'''
+'''Records:'''
-* 1143 - 11th of February 2008 - Organised record break attempt by Vulkanyaz
+* 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