All-Star Need Your Quick Opinion (our Biggest Season Yet)

[King]

Happy competition season peeps!

Yesterday we had our biggest CEA showcase day, 8,000 people. To compare, last year we only had 1,900 visit. How'd the site handle it? If this trend continues Were gonna see 60,000 people Sunday at worlds at the end and we gotta be prepared. Let me know if anyone had any speed or any other problems.

Thanks!

 

[Nothanks]

I don't recall having any problems yesterday during the showcase, and I was on both my phone and laptop during the peak performances--I had more problems with twitter at the time actually.

 

[SarahS]

No problems whatsoever. I think Cheerlive should hire you to fix their ... issues.

 

[cupieqt]

I didn't have any issues at all yesterday. I was on tapatalk so idk if that has anything to do with it. But nope, no problems!

 

[King]

Good to hear. Working on the backend more in the next few days. Having a website work flawlessly during peak cheer hours is not easy!

 

[Ashley]

No problems whatsoever. I think Cheerlive should hire you to fix their ... issues.

In their defense, streaming video is an extremely difficult thing to scale to that many people. Probably harder than scaling the board.

King - I noticed no problems yesterday. I'd love some nerd details about some of the things you do to prepare :D

 

[King]

In their defense, streaming video is an extremely difficult thing to scale to that many people. Probably harder than scaling the board.

King - I noticed no problems yesterday. I'd love some nerd details about some of the things you do to prepare :D

I personally think they should stream the video feed to a server somewhere and duplicate it there. Varsity did their stream and it was HD and beautiful without a problem. So it is possible, just not with their current providers. If all they had was 2,500 people there isn't much room to grow.

Nginx, PHP-FPM, and APC. along with beefed up RAM and CPU cores for big weekends. In theory we could handle 100,000 people at once.

 

[RetiredCoach91]

Cheer live needs fusion IO cards in their servers Time to update their hardware.

King was does the Boards run on?

 

[Ashley]

Nginx, PHP-FPM, and APC. along with beefed up RAM and CPU cores for big weekends. In theory we could handle 100,000 people at once.

Are you on a dedicated server with your host? Can you just tell them to beef it up when you need it?

 

[NJ Coach]

No problems with the board yesterday.

 

[King]

Cheer live needs fusion IO cards in their servers Time to update their hardware.

King was does the Boards run on?

Are you on a dedicated server with your host? Can you just tell them to beef it up when you need it?

I run on a VPS in the largest (or second largest) datacenter in the world located in Atlanta. It is a million square foot place with two trunk lines coming in the front and back. Lots of major financial institutions are there. A major search engine is there (I am not supposed to know it is google, but they walk around with google shirts on!). The UPS's are the size of cars. And there are a ton of them. My day job does everything through there. As far as our server and what not, we go through Bluewave Computing. We also do daily snapshots of our server in case something went down and we could revert back, at worst, to a week ago. I could beef it up to do all the cheerlive type hosting if needed, though it would be highly inefficient and expensive cause that isn't really what they do.

 

[cheercurl]

I thought it was perfect. I noticed no delays or glitches. Good job Kingston!

 

[King]

As for cheer live their problems are their hosting company. It is NOT because you had twitter open on your desktop (silly people who don't understand tech trying to give answers bug me... might as well wrapped the cables in tin foil and fidgeted them around to get a better signal). I am on an EXTREMELY fast connection here and had issues. Just to double check, I streamed 3 HD netflix movies at once with no skips.

 

[Ashley]

As for cheer live their problems are their hosting company. It is NOT because you had twitter open on your desktop (silly people who don't understand tech trying to give answers bug me... might as well wrapped the cables in tin foil and fidgeted them around to get a better signal). I am on an EXTREMELY fast connection here and had issues. Just to double check, I streamed 3 HD netflix movies at once with no skips.

Yes! I was rolling my eyes at that suggestion.

I wasn't sure if you had something like amazon's hosting where you can easily beef it up for a short period of time if need be. I'm going to go donate another $10 when I get in front of a computer, since your hosting sounds pretty expensive.

 

[FierceandFearless]

Was on the boards all day during the showcase yesterday. Had absolutely NO issues on this site whatsoever. :) WTG Kingston :)