200 at 2:05

At 2:05 pm PDT this afternoon, we hit 200 users at the same time. Because of a minor auto-update scheduled at that time, this caused a database "brownout". I took Apache and Mysql down and restarted them so some of you likely experienced a few mysterious messages while trying to load pages.

I'm probably going to have to put more memory in the server. This will likely cost between $150 and $400. A nice thing at CalPOP is that this will be a one-time fee not a continuing one.

This has nothing to do with the ads, btw, since they aren't served from the BC server.

- Erin