Member Online/Offline Status Indication...

Problem, as always with new features like this, is that they add additional pressure to the database -- poor olde Dual Xeon 3.2GHz with 4GB of RAM does already max out during the peak hours.. Adding online/offline indication would require at least two additional queries per page load for each user who browses the site when logged in. The online user counter we had a while ago used a logic that already made such feature possible, but we had to pull the plug from it about 2 months ago.

We have started balancing some of the queries already to our 2nd db server (same specs) and might end up having to add third db box to the equation by the end of the year with the current growth levels.

 

what are the numbers up to now??

 

About 6000+ during the peak times (using 15min period to count the unique users based in the IP address and browser tag).