Not even 4am in the morning herein the UK and there's 260 people on the site.
This is the time when we normally do our admin work on PPRuNe - minimum load and maximum server speed for us. Discussing this with Danny last night the server logs show that this 'dead' period of three to four hours we like to use is now as busy as peak time was just two months ago.
The WTC attack has only served to make our problems far more visible to Joe Average viewing PPRuNe. Our set up is showing serious strain whenever roughly 300 readers at any one time is exceeded. This number isn't a constant because many other factors are involved. Unbelievable bandwidth being used as computer users access news sites.
In short - it will get better as things calm down but the writing is really on the wall regarding us finding the finance to switch to a server equal to those used by large scale commercial organisations.