[Mark]

Hiya,

Just to say thanks for your patience while we try and solve these server problems. As you know at times the server spikes really high, leading to a lot of lag or a database crash.

There are a couple of things we think it might be, but the overall traffic is a big problem. It's far higher than we anticipated. For now, when we make the boards viewable to members only, it seems to be fast and stable. When we let anyone and anbody view thats when the spike occurs. You will have also noticed the Search and Whos Online goes down sometimes, that's just because we are testing things.

Unfortunately I can't get hold of our hosts at the moment (worst timing right? ), but at the moment our priority is just keeping the site online, and if this means people have to register and be a member to view the boards then we will do that. Please be assured we are working on this all the time, I know some people have been annoyed reported posts are taking longer to be dealt with, but this will hopefully smoothen out.

I can't give any exact figures, but we had a crazy first opening night for traffic. At one point Who's Online read 900 people viewing the boards, which beats our old record for 640 I had a sneaky peak at other sites, and most didn't have more than 30 on We are burning through bandwidth like no tomorrow also, using more in the last 5 days than we usually do in a month!

So once again, a big sorry for the problems... we are dealing with them all the time, and for the meantime there should (fingers crossed) be forum stability while it is open for regisTitered members only.

As soon as I've got in contact with the host, I'll give you an update

Sorry for any inconvenience,

- Mark

[Magic]

Ok thanks.

Can I ask a very, very stupid question. Where are websites 'stored' to?

[Chrizzle]

Thanks for that update Mark

And well done on your 'viewing figures LOL
Absolutely amazing

[Jackie]

Thankyou

[BigSister]

thanks for that Mark
I remember for bb5/6 the site went crazy but i cant remember it being like that for a while so it must have been busy lol. And dont worry take your time sorting it out

[Xander]

Well done on the viewing figures, it just shows TiBB is the preferred big brother forum out of any site.

[MarkWaldorf]

Thanks for the update and well done on the great figures. It's a great forum!

[Conzors]

Yay.

TiBB is one of the best though.

So Nerr all you others lol

[MR.K!]

well looks like TiBB has shot into the lead for best BB fansite ! well done ! Thanks Mark we appreciate your efforts

[Sticks]

Going by past performance, are we expecting another surge in demand or do things taper off from here on in. Is there usually a surge on the final night?

[Tom4784]

Well done for the figures! That's quite amazing.

[Sarah.]

I think it's better having a forum private anyways.
And that's an amazing viewing figure!

[Mark]

As you've probably seen, we've added a google search bar to the forum.

This is just like our old search, and it will only search ThisisBigBrother.com forums, so for example if you searched for "big brother mario", google will only display results from TiBB, and not other websites.

- Mark

[Ashleee:)]

Thats great thanks

[Xander]

That's a great addition, thanks Mark

[Scarlett.]

Coolio
better IMO