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Chief Bottle Washer

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Jul 2, 2004, 11:26 pm

New record to say the least.
Statistic is on bottom-right of the home page.

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four4me

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Jul 2, 2004, 11:34 pm

1235 a new record and a 4 digit number i will play tomorrow
Mana

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Jul 2, 2004, 11:50 pm

Quote: O

... insert witty quote here ...

... My behavior and apperance betrays my age ... but I'm good enough ...
besides, people in person would still be afraid to talk to meh, even if I had millions ^^;
dragon

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Jul 2, 2004, 11:56 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Todd on July 02, 2004

New record to say the least.
Statistic is on bottom-right of the home page.

Holy sh*t, Todd, what do you attribute that to? You had a 50% jump in your previous record in a few days. Perhaps you have reached the "tipping point?" Just hope your server bank is up to the job.
Todd

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Jul 3, 2004, 12:26 am

It's undoubtedly due to the rush of people going to BigGameLottery.com to check their Mega Millions numbers, and then following the links over here.
The servers held up with absolutely no problem. I was watching their performance stats real-time tonight, and I could easily handle 5 or 10 times the load I was getting - which is up there with just about any big site. My upgrades over the past year have really paid off!
Just for kicks I checked out each of the eleven state Web sites after 11:00, and I'm sarcastically happy to say that they each were tremendously slow, and didn't report the results in a timely manner. Pathetic, but it makes me feel like I'm doing a good job.

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whodeani

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Jul 3, 2004, 12:35 am

Todd, you don't need to feel like you are doing a good job. You are doing a good job. Keep up the good work.
thickbrwnsuga

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Jul 3, 2004, 12:36 am

Hello can anyone tell me or not?
whodeani

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Jul 3, 2004, 12:46 am

Quote: Originally posted by thickbrwnsuga on July 03, 2004

Hello can anyone tell me or not?

Go to the home page and scroll down about three quarters of the way on the right side you will see the statistics panel. The number of online users is in there.
Todd

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Jul 3, 2004, 12:48 am

Quote: Originally posted by thickbrwnsuga on July 03, 2004

Hello can anyone tell me or not?

As soon as it's announced you'll see it here.

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Todd

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Jul 3, 2004, 12:50 am

Quote: Originally posted by whodeani on July 03, 2004

Todd, you don't need to feel like you are doing a good job. You are doing a good job. Keep up the good work.

Thanks. It's always awesome to hear great feedback. I also have some of my own personal measures that I constantly try to live up to - and make me very pleased when I meet them. One of those measures is to constantly be better than the "official" sites. I love when I can beat someone with a government-sized budget!

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whodeani

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Jul 3, 2004, 12:50 am

Oops, sorry thickbrwnsuga, thought you were asking about the number currently online.
dragon

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Jul 3, 2004, 2:12 am

Quote: Originally posted by Todd on July 03, 2004

Just for kicks I checked out each of the eleven state Web sites after 11:00, and I'm sarcastically happy to say that they each were tremendously slow, and didn't report the results in a timely manner. Pathetic, but it makes me feel like I'm doing a good job.

I am sure the official sites have a different traffic load entirely. Litterally hundreds of thousands of people will go there and check numbers at times like this, so you're probably not comparing apples and oranges.
One thing I have wondered about, though. I remain logged in so when I come back, I don't have to log in. You must be using a cookie to detect my presence. However, when I leave, I either blast out of the browser or I go to another site. How do you know I am gone when I do that? You can't be checking every few seconds, so if there is a server-side timeout, it must be in the minutes. This could be distorting your online count, could it not?
I am not questioning you here, just curious. I wondered about that before you had record attendance announcements.
Todd

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Jul 3, 2004, 2:20 am

dragon,
No, I beg to differ. I have hundreds of thousands of hits at BigGameLottery.com all at once, and I'm just fine, thank you.
In fact, I probably had more hits at 11:00 than most of the other state lottery sites.
The reason they don't perform well is that they obviously did not build an architecture that can handle the load, whereas I did.
Also, your analysis of my counter on Lottery Post is wrong. It does not use a cookie, and it is an extremely conservative counter. Unlike others, I don't feel the need to pad numbers, I am much happier earning them.
I am not going to reveal to you how I code my site. Good night.

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dragon

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Jul 3, 2004, 2:52 am

Todd:
Thanks for the clarification. I was impressed before. I am more impressed now.
Irvin

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Jul 3, 2004, 6:07 am

That online figure is nothing it is the sign of things to come....Start of a tidal wave.

Congratulations on the count Todd its only going up.

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