Hi guys, I'm sorry but I'm not very well-versed in all things network and server related, so this may be a really dumb post, but I'm trying to understand the graphs related to traffic on my website. What I really want to know, is how much traffic our server is capable of handling, but I'm having a hard time deciphering these graphs. What I do know is that about ten days ago we sent out a mass e-mail to 800,000 people and experienced an onslaught of connections to the site at the same time. Predictably (not that we actually predicted this) the site slowed to a crawl and mass panic ensued at our headquarters. Unsurprising, perhaps, but what IS surprising (at least to me) is that the MRTG traffic graph doesn't show any kind of peak whatsoever corresponding to this time period! The monthly peak occurs a week afterwards, and even that peak is only about the same size as the almost daily peaks for the months of April and May!!
And even crazier, the peaks for December, November, and September are five times higher, with a bizarre and sudden drop-off at the end of September, even though our traffic (as in, clicks recorded) has been increasing ever since!! So what I'd like to know is whether the "traffic" shown in these graphs has anything to do with the number of people connected, the activity on the site, or what? Last but not least, I'm also unclear on the difference between "incoming" and "outcoming" traffic. Any help would be most appreciated!! Thank you! Alia _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
