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Thread Admin: AA-bob (3-0-0) (Last 10 Posts) Posted: 02/01/2010 at 15:14:38
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Thread Title: "AuctionArms Popularity...double edged sword??"
AA-bob

Like the old saw goes, "Be careful of what you ask for, you may get it..."

Well, AuctionArms has been working hard to increase our popularity and new customer base through several marketing efforts including On-line Advertising and Search Engine Optimizations.

As a result of these efforts and our increasing popularity, during our highest load period yesterday afternoon/evening(Sunday afternoon is traditionally our highest use period), for about 20 minutes, we had an unusually high number of concurrent users. This situation overloaded our servers and actually created a situation similar to when the phone company sends you the message on an uncompleted call "all circuits are busy, please try your call again later."

While our servers were not technically "down" (They were churning at 100%), some users experienced a situation that made AuctionArms appear to be "down" since they could not make a connection.

Long term this is "good" thing (more bidders, more sellers). It sucked in the short term yesterday for users who were trying to get a connection during that short period.

As a result, we apologize to anyone who experienced this problem. We are currently adding additional servers today to increase our ability to handle concurrent users by 30% and will be monitoring closely for any indications that additional server space is needed before it becomes a problem.

Thanks to one and all for your cooperation and understanding of this "good to have/bad to experience" situation while we beef up the site's abilities to handle everyone who wants to use AuctionArms.
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Former Seller: Bubba J(109-0-0) Post#31 - Posted: 02/10/2010 at 11:10:04
Bubba J Hagrid: Sounds like a nice toy to add to a group that already plays nice together.

5th: I'll bet that it is a bunch better than rock salt loads. ;o0

FR&G

Buyer: BNPHunter 357(1-0-0) Post#32 - Posted: 06/18/2010 at 16:37:21
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Guys I think this is a wild bunch here in the forums. And that si good I hate to be the only wild man on here. Hey AA how about this limiting folks to only one ad for the same item. There are some that have several ads on here for the same item and that takes a lot of time to sort thru when you are looking at thing but it is not productive time and means that folks are on here going thru stuff they have seen several times and thus tying up your servers and the other folks on here as well. It is a common thing on ebay and makes me crazy every time I run into it--the same thing listed several times by the same person and they only have on of them-- if I was to want several of them then it would be good to find --but then they only have one of them and that would plain (**& me off too.--Just a thought on what appears to be an older thread.

Buyer: 5thcommjarhead(68-0-0) Post#33 - Posted: 06/19/2010 at 07:42:45
5thcommjarhead

You aren't the only wild man here.  You're just the only one who's not heavily medicated at present.  Anyone for another heavy hit of Thorazine?

Buyer: brainaxe(17-0-0) Post#34 - Posted: 06/19/2010 at 08:36:48
brainaxe

BNP--Whow! Take it easy! Steady Now!! Lighten Up!!! Settle down thaarr!!! You're a bit out of control!!! And watch yur lang-gwidge!

One question fer ya.... How do you know the seller doesn't have more than one of the items for sale??

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