Hi,i'm Gary

[Hepcat]

Good job Gary! Thanks for doing this! If you want some admin help, let me know. I've got some experience being staff on forums.

Roger

[Art]

hi Gary! Thanks for doing this, i could not stomach CRVL any more

[frater secessus]

...the guy i asked said this could handle  about 1000 unique visitors,whatever that mean

"1000 Uniques" is a term of art that roughly means something like "1000 different people" in a given period, typically per day or month.  Usually judged by IP address and/or user agent.  <-- everybody click there if you want to see how your browser identifies itself. 

The issue isn't as clear as it might seem for several reasons:

• individuals might use several different browsers, as with power users
  
• individuals might share the same browser, as with a home pc everyone uses
  
• for performance or other reasons sometimes groups of users come from the same IP, as with proxies
  
• sometimes browsing clients are not human at all, but are spiders/bots cataloging content for search engines, as with Google or Bing.  Setting a robots.txt file in the webserver's document root will provide instructions to well-behaved spiders.  For example, you might want to block searchbots early on to protect your bandwidth. 
  
• and weirder stuff
  

In the business of web hosting "uniques" are used because the term is common among marketing and social media types that usually do the web stuff.  Ad people talk about things like "unique impressions" in print and multimedia.

Functionally, the reason this matters is that repeat visitors consume CPU/socket/bandwidth resources differently (and usually more lightly) on a request-by-request basis than "new" uniques.  Has to do with caching, mostly, but also cookie setting for folks that don't already have them, etc.

Of course, I could be making this stuff up.  I'm going eat my pretzels and sit quietly now.  

[Scott7022]

Very correct and a better explanation than my highly paid geek (polite colloquial I love my geek). Search engines are a big hit. When I got my first website it was getting 100 unique hits a month. Then my book was published, it got a few more, not much. Then it got reviewed, I tied social media to it and boom it went over. Moved to another server, and it got hacked and started serving an Amsterdam porn site. So the New website got made. Locked up and done right and it got tons of traffic for quite a while. Now it gets a bit and I need it for presence but it auto scales. I don't understand that part the geek does it. First page hitting google was the goal and I do. SO much for privacy anymore LOL!

I said it elsewhere and I'll repeat it, and chime in with Gunny. PM and I'll send you a hundred by the end of the week.

[bLEEp]

Nice to be here!
Always exciting to be a part of something shiny and new.
I really dig a smaller group with less drama as well. Save the drama for your mama's lama!
Big love
bLEEp

[frater secessus]

...Now it gets a bit and I need it for presence but it auto scales. I don't understand that part the geek does it. 

Virtual server resources (CPU, RAM, diskspace, etc) are allotments from a much bigger system[s].   The server is allowed to "burst" (exceed) allotments sometimes.  But if it becomes the "new normal" those allotments are expanded to fit the need.  And the billing is adjusted appropriately.

The service provider themselves might be virtual with no actual hardware.  They can rent resources from Amazon or Google and package them for sale to end users.  Strange days indeed.

[Vagabound]

So who invited this bum?!?

Tom

[TWIH]

Good job Gary!  Thanks for doing this!  If you want some admin help, let me know.  I've got some experience being staff on forums.

Roger

x2 Gary, I've had some experience being banned before if you need that kind of help, wait, I guess you dont...

[Kaylee]

i just started this forum and dont have a clue on how to work it

Two weeks and two days 'til the First Anniversary!
Will there be a celebration?!?

P.S. Thanks Gary for the safe, troll-free, deletion-free forum!

[RoamingRaven]

Happy Belated Birthday to YARC.