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Gaia's been slow because of a lack of web servers...

Been scrambling to get everything working right for the event. gonk So far we've went through a lot of configuration adjustments and tweaking just to get the pages to load within 3 seconds. We need more web servers but we've been having a battle getting more power and rack space from our provider.

We have one of the best ISP in San Jose, same one that serves big sites like Google, Yahoo, and big companies like Nintendo. But maybe because we're not a big company, our request for expansion had been delayed over and over, and two weeks ago they had just increased our rental fee by three times. Now we have to shop for a new ISP with decent pricing and with plenty of free space for us to grow. Moving the 200 servers to a new location will be daunting, but look like it's something that must be done...

Meanwhile, we took the job of avatar preview and avatar save away from the forum web servers to hopefully get some speed back to the event. Bugs related to very high traffic volumes had been dealt with, and our load blancer plus firewall had also been tweaked because of the increase in traffic during the event.

If all goes well, we should be able to move to a new location next month and the Christmas event will not end up being as slow as this! domokun