[EricH]

Originally Posted by yash101

I do not think that that is a problem to the forum, but admins, you may want to place a resource cap to prevent the server from hogging all the resources, causing a kernel panic.

You aren't exactly familiar with CD history, so here's a couple of tidbits.

1) Legend has it that Brandon (the webmaster) used to put the CD server in a bulletproof case shortly before Kickoff, so that damage to surrounding things was minimal when it exploded. Not sure how true the exploding part is, but we'll go with that.

2) There was at one time a resource cap. Due to the amount of traffic, Brandon at one point locked the number of users online to a certain maximum--spiders were banned temporarily, guests had lower priority, registered users who were over the max couldn't get on for a while until someone else got off. Shortly afterward, the server got more space, so the limits were lifted.

And 3): The current solution is a bit of cloud-based server. Resources can be added in or removed to handle increased traffic (say, adding another couple of servers around Kickoff for the traffic, and letting them slide out in April or so). No issues other than the odd forum downtime, generally for an upgrade or to add in a server or three.