A quick site update for you folks:
Lately, Statefans Nation’s readership has increased tremendously, which is undoubtedly a combination of the Wolfpack’s improvement on the football field, the coming of hoops season and most importantly, the value that comes from spending time reading what the guys here take time to write — both in the main articles and also the insight and good debate that comes in the comments section. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that so many folks request info from the server at one time that it is bogging down and occasionally looks to be offline. It isn’t, actually. It’s just saturated and cannot keep up with the number of requests it’s being given. For example, the other day after the Miami win, over 3500 page requests were being received every second. That’s a lot — and more than the old system was designed to handle. When that happens you may see error pages or the site may be very slow.Â
Old system? Yes — there’s a new system coming to host this site as well as RAWFS. We’re in the process of creating and building a server with roughly sixteen times the processing power and four times the memory than the server that’s currently hosting SFN. Once the site’s moved over, the hiccups that have plagued the system administrators should be a thing of the past.
In the meantime, please be patient while we work to make this transition as smooth as possible. We are aware of the problems and working hard on solving them once and for all.
Thanks!
