A new message I've never seen before ....

BOINCstats is currently down because the server is overloaded.
Current load: 50.35
Normal operation will resume when the load falls below 50.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Willy

Well, that's not the new databaseserver, that's the (now oldest) webserver. And it's been a long time since it has seen such load, today three times already. That calls for an investigation.

Edit: that message (when appropriate) has always been there, but it hasn't shown its ugly face in a long time.

I received one of these messages this morning too, except that the Current Load was 50.19.

you'll probably have to thank google, bing and those other oh so helpful things sucking up everything...

. . . I can see another boat anchor retirement drive coming on. . . .

Well I certainly hope there is no need for that. I assume that whatever tweaking was required was taken care of by Willy, because it was only that one day I saw those messages (multiple times), I haven't seen one since. And on that day I checked and there wasn't an inordinate amount of users and guests logged in using the web service as far as I could see.

Perhaps he had yet another "scraper" to deal with?