Oooppss... I did it AGAIN...... Please don't break my server...

by xInd
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Ok, so about 3 weeks ago, I spent about 3 hours doing some marketing work late at night not thinking about the ramifications on the hosting account for the site in question... By morning, the site wasn't responding, just as if under a DDOS attack, yet all caused by legitimate traffic.... my stats broke, database corruption, and major problems, despite the server being locked down like fort knocks, to ensure that no one account could cause any real disruption on another, all other sites were slowed down by about 50% or more.

So we fixed it all up, tweaked mysql, upped the resource limits for the account, transfered some sites off the server....reinstalled stats.. etc.. etc...

So I went and did an hour of marketing the night before last now, so like 29 hours ago... yesterday traffic to the front end site went from the dwindling 250 unique visitors per day which was a nose dive of sorts from the 400/day before the 3 hour late night marketing shift.... to almost 800 yesterday.. now at 1am I get an email from my lead dev... worried about site load... and we're already sporting 150 unique visitors in an hour since midnight.....

Who thinks my site is going to break before lunch time, 12:00 pm PST, and who thinks it will still be online and working?
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