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skoola · Post by **skoola** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:57 pm

hahaha

now could you imagine the problems with the server if that was next weeks print?

robotoil · Post by **robotoil** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:02 pm

It's like, come on already.

Gigantico · Post by **Gigantico** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:06 pm

robotoil wrote:It's like, come on already.

Xpoc · Post by **Xpoc** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:31 pm

Gigantico wrote:
robotoil wrote:It's like, come on already.

stickee · Post by **stickee** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:35 pm

today sucked

Post by **McKenna** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:37 pm

That's hilarious.

PDC · Post by **PDC** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:07 pm

Gosh darn it, do I have to post an image to say A$s?

whyhoo · Post by **whyhoo** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:57 pm

right? but honestly... even a little cluster consisting of a few dedicated application servers and a couple of DB servers behind a load balancer does cost some coin ($100k+ / year)... probably not the kind of coin obey is willing to drop to alleviate the hassle so the flippers can get the prints that much easier.

at least it makes it a little more fair if everyone is dealing with the same BS.

lb1469 · Post by **lb1469** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:17 am

whyhoo wrote:right? but honestly... even a little cluster consisting of a few dedicated application servers and a couple of DB servers behind a load balancer does cost some coin ($100k+ / year)... probably not the kind of coin obey is willing to drop to alleviate the hassle so the flippers can get the prints that much easier.

at least it makes it a little more fair if everyone is dealing with the same BS.

I think amount of frustration one has to go through to get a print from OG has the opposite affect on flipping.

I think the more frustrating and time consuming it becomes to get a print, the more attractive the after market becomes to more people and the more disappointed people there are, the higher the prints will sell on eBay or elsewhere.

I gave up after an hour. I’m a big Gehry fan and really wanted this print, but my time is worth more than what I will end up paying for this print next week on eBay.

Backpackpunk · Post by **Backpackpunk** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:25 am

I have a feeling today was a bit of an anomaly, I think you might have seen a small spike for this print because of the Gehry fans and flippers hoping to make the same amount that the Zeppelin prints went for, but I don't think that would have caused the server to melt down that much. The biggest problem besides the server meltdown was the interaction between paypal and OG.com, I have a feeling that there may have been some issues with the code "breaking" (for lack of a better term). The reason I say this is because as there were less people trying to get this print 3-4 hours after it went up there were still some problems with the site. Give it a week and we will be back to our usual 30 minutes of hair pulling and fist pounding instead of the 3-4 hour crepe we went though today.

PS I still think OG could do something about making a better site though.

lb1469 · Post by **lb1469** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:37 am

I don't know. I didn't have any trouble with PP because I could not get the Obey site to load for the first 3 hours. Never happened to me before. I think others were in the same boat.

lb1469 · Post by **lb1469** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:39 am

But I hope your right about the return to "normal" BPP.

whyhoo · Post by **whyhoo** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:59 am

something was definitely up today... my guess is that someone inadvertently launched a minor denial of service attack by trying to get a script to buy the print for them. or a bunch of people tried the same script... or something to that effect...

cybernigel · Post by **cybernigel** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:05 am

whyhoo wrote:right? but honestly... even a little cluster consisting of a few dedicated application servers and a couple of DB servers behind a load balancer does cost some coin ($100k+ / year)... probably not the kind of coin obey is willing to drop to alleviate the hassle so the flippers can get the prints that much easier.

at least it makes it a little more fair if everyone is dealing with the same BS.

true dat, but you could outsource it and just pay for the extra bandwidth during releases. They would be better prepared to thwart a DOS too.

If it stiffels flippers then I don't mind.

whyhoo · Post by **whyhoo** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:13 am

hehe... $100k/ year IS outsourcing it and letting someone else do what they do best! and with a huge peak spike once a week, i think they're already paying out the nose for bandwidth alone.

cybernigel · Post by **cybernigel** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:32 am

whyhoo wrote:hehe... $100k/ year IS outsourcing it and letting someone else do what they do best! and with a huge peak spike once a week, i think they're already paying out the nose for bandwidth alone.

Nah, you can get a beast of processing, storage, and **18Tb** of public data transfer for under $2.5K/mo from these guys:

http://www.layeredtech.com/hosting-solu ... puting.php

Dizzyegg05 · Post by **Dizzyegg05** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:13 am

I agree it is time to start making waves.

I know i posted it 2 times before but seen as the top image is so good and were on the subject.

robotoil · Post by **robotoil** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:42 am

whyhoo wrote:something was definitely up today... my guess is that someone inadvertently launched a minor denial of service attack by trying to get a script to buy the print for them. or a bunch of people tried the same script... or something to that effect...

hahahaha. "inadvertently".

whyhoo · Post by **whyhoo** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:53 pm

cybernigel wrote:
whyhoo wrote:hehe... $100k/ year IS outsourcing it and letting someone else do what they do best! and with a huge peak spike once a week, i think they're already paying out the nose for bandwidth alone.

Nah, you can get a beast of processing, storage, and **18Tb** of public data transfer for under $2.5K/mo from these guys:

http://www.layeredtech.com/hosting-solu ... puting.php

ahhhh... but do they have "fanatical support"?!

:wink:

bboygraphix · Post by **bboygraphix** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:54 pm

i honestly get the feeling like they don't really care, or have bigger fish to fry. this server traffic issue has been around since they went to the 1 per-person limit and scheduled releases back in '06.

some of the tech related people tried kicking and screaming back then and nothing has changed except for a new non-paypal based cart that sucks more. i guess the only consolation is that it took care of the refunds we were getting back when it was a paypal based shopping cart without real-time inventory control.

stickee · Post by **stickee** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:43 am

bboy! check yur pm's mate!

Website · Post by **admonkey** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:31 pm

Bumping this feels appropriate.

extremeimages77 · Post by **extremeimages77** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:35 pm

admonkey wrote:Bumping this feels appropriate.

seriously

Website · Post by **admonkey** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:55 am

admonkey wrote:Bumping this feels appropriate.

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