Today was the first day of fall 2006 term and boy is our portal tired! The ramp up to today is interesting, so I will use pretty graphs to illustrate.
Saturday saw a fairly large uptick in traffic, but we barely broke the 400 user barrier. The most interesting thing in the Saturday graph is right before midnight you can see the network die.
Here on Sunday’s graph you can see that the network doesn’t fully recover (a lot of stuff was working just fine behind the scenes) until around 9am, at which point we rocket up to 300 users just like that. From 8pm until midnight on Sunday we have over 1,000 users in the portal. Do you think people are getting ready for class?
From midnight to 4am we ramp back down to just about nothing.
But now it’s Monday and we must deal with some emergency cable moves, thus another portal dance!
