Dok: Time

[John D.]

Nope - you are not in a time warp....


Briefly - 12 servers share two T1 connections in my office - and Luger Forum sits across two of these servers. (The message Board is on a LINUX server and the website sits on a W2K server). Anyway - this Linux server is one hour and a few minutes behind on purpose....


See - on the mail servers, I send out approximately 12,000,000 e-mails in 24 hours from the various e-mail lists and Web Boards (I have a LOT of these e-mail lists and there are close to 70,000 registered e-mail addresses that are signed up to get e-mails from my servers). About 2,000,000 of those e-mails are DIGESTS - which are ONE BIG e-mail with the posts from a specific list. Most of these are 100KB in size and larger. These are sent at out 12:00 Midnight.


If all my servers compile and send these DIGESTS at the same time - it would consume approximately 500% of my available bandwidth....


If that happens - chances are you'd never be able to get "into" this web board between the hours of 12 midnight and 1:00 AM EDT - as with all those bytes of info going OUT, an incoming datastream would be sort of like a "salmon swimming upstream against the current"... Not very fast...


HTH.....