registerme
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Post by registerme on Aug 31, 2015 8:34:07 GMT
It's become extremely nippy for me. Does anybody else see the same? I suspect more hamsters were purchased after the "500 concurrent users brought it to its knees" kerfuffle recently. If so that's a good thing.
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11025
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Post by 11025 on Aug 31, 2015 9:20:31 GMT
I will withhold judgement until the next batch of loans are launched 
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james
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Post by james on Aug 31, 2015 12:28:28 GMT
I thought I read of them doing load testing on the live site so an improvement might be a result of what they discovered during that load testing. that could be more hardware or it could be a better tuned system or a combination of the two.
If it works with their system architecture they might also have experimented with on demand server provision like that provided by Amazon, so they could buy extra server power for an hour or two while a loan is first going live. Prefunding probably eliminated the need for this.
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jonah
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Post by jonah on Aug 31, 2015 17:46:51 GMT
Interesting thought... Will prefunding actually reduce the number of people trying to get on the site, at least in the short term? I would expect a fairly large number of people with prefunding turned on will want to see what they have put their money into. If some of the tweaks suggested (and recently commented on by SS) in the main prefunding thread happen that might reduce the numbers but on its own prefunding should help spread the investment around but not fix IT capacity issues.
that said, there was a comment from SS about a load test, which I see as a positive. Hopefully the details from the test will allow whatever scaling or tweaking is required to give a better experience at the next loan.
fingers crossed.
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ramblin rose
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Post by ramblin rose on Sept 1, 2015 9:08:59 GMT
Interesting thought... Will prefunding actually reduce the number of people trying to get on the site, at least in the short term? I would expect a fairly large number of people with prefunding turned on will want to see what they have put their money into. If some of the tweaks suggested (and recently commented on by SS) in the main prefunding thread happen that might reduce the numbers but on its own prefunding should help spread the investment around but not fix IT capacity issues. that said, there was a comment from SS about a load test, which I see as a positive. Hopefully the details from the test will allow whatever scaling or tweaking is required to give a better experience at the next loan. fingers crossed. I'm sure it would reduce the number of people simultaneously trying to log in; I certainly wouldn't feel the need to be logging in the very instant a loan went live, and would be logging in the next time it happened to be convenient. Perhaps I'd be the only one, but I somehow doubt it. A fair few people would probably be happily invested regardless and not that bothered about what the loan was, except for interest, so they'd leave it till next convenient. Some would still want to get on immediately, perhaps such as those who haven't prefunded. No doubt the first time there'll be more trying to get straight in out of curiosity, but my feeling is the load would be less concentrated than it has been, even then.
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