I noticed a strange behaviour yesterday, the number of 'reads' for one of my stories differed from the total hit for the same story on the 'my stories' page.
This morning, Chapter 11 of Unaccounted Gains 3 has 491 reads on the front page and 699 in My Stories (the same number is shown within the story itself). So, why would the front page counter differ? I'm also pretty sure this is not related to my account having checked a few others.
Shiraz
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Just Conjecture!
Just Conjecture, but.....
The higher number is Raw Hits & the lower one is Unique Hits?
>i< ..:::
Nope
Drupal does not save unique hits. Too much overhead.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I'm going to guess that, to
I'm going to guess that, to save load on the servers, elements of the front page are cached.
If that is so, the information on the front page may not accurately reflect the actual viewing statistics, but the ones that were in place at the time the information was obtained.
Essentially, yes
The front page is cached twice and either may be served to a visitor. And either can differ in the hit counts from the count on the detail page.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Missing!
The number of reads are now missing from the front page for the most recent stories
Shiraz
Different problem
It's being worked on. We've got two new servers to install and things should all be copacetic by Monday.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Progress....
Will there be Snickers in the Candy Machine in the virtual breakroom?
Love, Andrea Lena
Snickers
The QNez health and wellness department has ruled snickers unhealthy, and replaced them with sunflower kernels.
No!
Please, say it isn't so!
Two new servers?!
Just out of curiosity, replacements for ones nearing the end of their useful life, or additional ones to add capacity?
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Add servers
We added two new servers to basically complete the building of our private cloud installation. Now besides Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup, we have Mary, Aurora and Jaq helping us run BigCloset. :) These are configured as dual frontend servers, master-master-slave database servers and file server. We also have a file server at a different location for offsite backups and secondary backup to a rented cloud server. This configuration will allow us to easily add more servers, even in different locations, and give us failover protections. Another frontend server in western North America and one in London or Europe are probably our next expansions.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Sounds good
It does sound good, especially the multi-site failover aspect but having increased database resilience is also plainly important given the site's heavy reliance on SQL. There is however a cost implication to this unless all of the additional expenses can be offset by renting out server capacity to other sites? I presume this is being done already in the US but the UK/Europe hosting market is incredibly competitive.
Shiraz
Renting out servers
We get only a small part of our budget from renting out server space. The $1200 for the new servers came mostly from me via money I did not distribute to myself as my share of earnings. We do have a pledge for about half of that from a member.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.