Thanks for the comments. However, I'm not sure which bit of
"PPRuNe is scheduled to transfer to new, more powerful servers in three weeks." you didn't quite understand. As for the tidal wave of visitors the BA crash generated, I doubt anyone would have predicted the numbers being so high.
As I mentioned in the first post, the server is already scheduled. These things do not happen overnight and have to be planned carefully. No doubt there will be a lot of gnashing of teeth when the swap over takes place as it will involve a certain amount of down time. C'est la guerre!
To give you a slight idea of the numbers involved, we normally have around 35,000 to 40,000 unique visitors a day. That's around 60,000 visits in total a day increasing to an expected 160,000 today. That number has more than doubled the last two days. That's over a 100% increase and that's with the throttling we are having to apply to keep the servers from melting!
Finally, PPRuNe advertising is not charged on a per view basis and all our clients pay a monthly fee. Value for money? You bet! Now that you've unleashed the marketing guy from within, I will direct any potential new advertisers who would like a daily audience of the numbers above to visit our advertising pages at:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/advertise.php and for an index of our current advertisers, please visit:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/advertiserindex.php
There! That feels better.
