[groverat]

If I'm not mistaken MacNN is the daddy of AppleInsider. If this is truly the case I would greatly appreciate any explanation as to why the AI boards have been down for so long and would appreciate even moreso an estimated time at which the AI boards may be up once again.

I'm going through withdrawals, any help would be greatly appreciated.

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groverat
No, I don't have anything intelligent to add.

[Ca$h68]

Apple shut them down for posting pictures of the cube.... same with another site.. I read that somewhere....

Ca$h

[disectamac]

check again groverat, they've been up for a while now

[Misha]

MacNN and AI share the same server for UBB, which is used exclusively for that purpose (minus our mail server, which also runs on the same box but consumes less than 1% of the CPU).

AI forums are very active--too active, in fact, at times. We notice this immediately because our mail servers becomes very slow to respond, as are the forums. Rather than leave everything up and running slowly (compromising both our mail and all of the forums), we shut AI's boards off. Many members of the AI community seem to be constantly refreshing numerous pages, using the boards as a real-time chat arena.

For those of you familiar with [Red Hat] Linux, performing a load check (w) on the forum/mail server typically yields a figure of 10 or less (this should really be under 5, and ideally under 2). At times, like during Macworl when everything gets bogged down, this figure jumps in excess of 100, sometimes approaching 200. That's ridiculous, and that's when we turn things off.

We are currently evaluating our options, including dedicating a box exclusively for AI forums. We hope to have a solution for you soon...