Project Ramp-Up -- Post your observations or comments here

> I've been observing things, with just one cpu to test the waters so to speak
> and, last night, decided to add a couple more to the fold. They were added
> approximately 3 hours apart and they received IDs approx 400 apart. That
> translates to a very rough estimate of 3000 boxes per day being added.
>
> The number of new users per day, according to the server status page, has been
> running close to 1000 for a few days now. The total number of users and total
> number of boxes are not that different so it is likely that most new users are
> adding a single box to start with (like me) and are then coming back at a
> later stage (like me) and adding significantly more. Seems to augur well for
> the project.
>
> It would be nice to see a comment or two, perhaps through the front page news,
> of how BA views things since he threw open the doors. I'd be very interested
> in any comments on whether the "take-up" rate is greater or less than expected
> and whether or not there are likely to be server load problems if the current
> rate of adding new boxes is maintained. Maybe this information is out there
> somewhere and I just haven't seen it although I have been looking :).

I'll add a news item later today. It's timely, since it's now two weeks since we went public.

Bruce