Can we get some number of actual users and the frequency of site access by users? This is not a hard thing to do since there is a last action value for each payer. That woudl give us some idea of what we are talkgin abotu in terms of necessary resources.

Also, Have Fencer and Liqui considered open-sourcing their code so that some of us who are programmers by trade could help out when we have time?

Chief KM...alt246 gives you an ö...then you can type Danke Schön :)

Nonsense Grubbe. My hi school German teacher assured me my spelling was fine..just before they let her go for dyslexia. (my webtv has a hard enough time with apostrophies let alone O with a little hat on it) lol

LOL Chief..have no experience in Web-TV..but on this american keyboard you make an ö as i told you...nonsense or not :)

alt246 there!!!!!! nothing happened

use the alt-button to the left of the space bar...better end this "education" here :)

²¢½ ²¢½ I am indebbted to you Herr Grubbe

on my key board it is ALT 665 Ö
and yesterday all day i kept getting
HTTP error...505 internal server error
i couldnt log on at all from midmorning till close of play at about 5.30pm
Why do people make suggestions and then get shot down because of it?
You either donate or you dont.....end of story...there is no need to "blow your own trumpet" over donating..
Get a life and get over it.
Fencer will no doubt get it sorted in time, and I know it is annoying, but there is nothing any of us can do...so lets just let him get on with it in peace :)

Fencer, what I want to hear is an answer on my idea a few weeks ago of giving a life time rook membership to the one who can arrange a new server for free by contacting his connections!
For example the FIDE (World Chess Federation) or Mr. van Oostrum (sponsoring chess tournament for much more money) might be interested to do so, but i did not get any answer! Do you really want your new server?

Uil: That sounds like a really good deal.

that's a capital ö - different code of course ...

and maybe you should get over torturing your brain
over the life other people have and put it to Sergeant Chat.
(it's degraded since long, to pre-emptively catch yet another post)

I appreciate that Fencer does not make fullmouth promises
(certainly a new server will cast new problems at the beginning)

The Czech Republic is not the center of europe.net
- bandwidth problems are likely to be expected for a while yet.

But about only 100 players simultaneous as edge of capacity
really have to be overcome if it is supposed to work out ~*~

You mean, the server-issue will be solved and taken care of by a fellow Dutch man! I really need to consider to change my flag into that one of my Home-Country!!

Hartstikke goed, joh!! :-)

(btw: normally I am not thAt nationalistic; only when our Dutch National Skate team wins another WorldChampionShip on their high-speed skates.. lol)

Wish this server high-speed s:):)n as well..

Now that sounds like a word ! Good Luck !! :)

lifetime errrrm how old are you Uil ? 0:) - okay, just teasing ... ;) ... ~*~

About bandwidth. You are right, Czech Republic is not the center of europe.net but BK using about 1% of our available bandwidth.

And may i have e questin? Where is center of europe.net??? :-))

Fencer, still no real answer, for example i asked about the price

I'm not sure ... Hamburg is internet-service capital of germany,
but I guess Frankfurt as center of the Telekom world
is better featured, most likely the dutch metropole also ...
not to mention 'Siemens' Munich ... hehehe !

have you investigated or are you just teasing back ? :P ~*~

Could it be Oslo?

Stop it Danoschek, I am not sure he will do this!
He has to believe in this site before he put any money into it. I know Jeroen Piket, a formally top chess player and now his right hand, so I can give it a try!!

What about Paris?? ;o)

stop what ?? wishing good luck ? you lost me ~*~

other answer: I am 51, so 30 or 40 years is all I need for a free "rookship"

???

You mean, I mustn´t change my flag yčt?? lol - think you ehmm, made a typo there.... L;)L

maar dat is niet zo erg; het is al na middernacht in Nederland :-)

²¢½O ²¢½O²¢½ ²O¢¼ anyone own a webtv? Uh..would you like to buy mine? ²²²¢½O

Succes!! :-)

en je weet het, hč.. niet over twee nachten ijs :-)

Sorry, guys.. i told him to confirm everything extra good with everybody :-)

Oslo is gret, i have been there 10 days ago. :-) But servers must be near to me, to Fencer.

are you from Dutch origin??????

Yes, I am :-)))

You can read my profile.. its a bit like a novel, but I assure you, you can read where I am original from ;o)

Uil: Just to make some estimation, $10000. That would be a good start. Maybe two machines could be purchased for this price, to make the site more stable [server cluster, load balancing, ...].

10-12 grands seems to be not too optimistic to get it into dry blankets.

e.g. Dell lowered the prices and the Euro is strong. *grin*

make it 15,000 and two twin-xeon2.8 are in reach ... :") ~*~

Right, I am looking forward to the year when EUR replaces CZK, I don't like exchange rates ;-)

Yeah, i would lilke to have two servers of dual Xeon 3,06 GHz for loadbalancing.

I bet you will stroke them carefully as first approach ... :D

A few weeks ago during a messy BK-day with timeouts for me,
I sent Fencer already a catalogue instead of a complaint ... hehehe !

Looking forward to visiting Praha, the first modern town in Europe
- and using the same currency that is accepted in Paris as well ...

the future will bring a new bb-net-axis
Berlin-Prague-Vienna-Budapest I'm sure ... :) ~*~

can anyone help me find my lost love, Her name is amber she is 20 almost 21 and she last known to be in Orion Michgan. please tell me what you know or tell her Jon still love her

I saw Amber last Sunday in Mannheim,Germany in our park. She was very hurry and she told me:Don`t worry,I`m happy!

why is game time still suspended? I thought Liquid was back. Downtime is much better.

for those of us that are havig trouble getting on here, and then after playing a few games, it say's it's too busy, we sure do appreciate the suspended time.

I am being forced to sit and do NOTHING.! Why?
I am done with all my games. Sitting is boring!!!!

Yes, but the way it is currently set up, you cannot join a new tournament until all the games in your section finish. However, if you message Fencer (or maybe he'll read this), he can mark you as eliminated (as you have no chance to advance) and then you will be able to join another tournament.

Of course. That's your restriction as non-paying member.

HAHAHA good one Fencer LOL...but then I can't really talk either...I wondered why I couldnt go any further after i was eliminated from a tourney...but thanks to KEVIN...he made it possible :)

What's my restriction? That your logistics suq?

Your restriction is to only be able to join one tournament at a time...as a non paying member.

how can somebody make 837 moves in one day, especially with those frequent server-breakdowns??? ;-?

I agree, it is impossible ... I have been trying for almost 36hrs. just to get on to play the games. It really sucks, and I hope they solve the problem soon.

I have not had one problem at all today trying to access the site. I guess it must be the time you try to access it etc.. I keep the site open nearly 11 hours a day and every time I went to make a move today I had no problem. I do think there are a lot of contributing factors with regards to a lot of people not having as much access as others. Maybe ISP, time of day, Speed of server at the time, # of people already trying to access the site.

As I say for the first time in nearly 8 days today was the first day I didn't get the can't access site page.

I never could figure out how any one could make more then 200 or 300 moves a day. People must sit at their systems for 10 hours straight just clicking away.. As I say I have the site open all day an I go to it during breaks in work,afternoon breaks, lunch, after supper etc and have never exceeded 180 moves per day since I became a member. I thought I was THE true addict. How people can play more then 300+ a day is surely beyond me!

Rose: I can make 100 moves (backgammon mainly) in an hour quite easily. I'm guessing that it depends on the speed of your internet connection (do you have broadband?).

Yup High speed cable. I guess it's that I wouldnt just sit for an hour or more straight clicking on games.. MY eyes would go cross eyed I bet!

Dang bumble, your laptop IS amazing LOL

.. Anyone know?

Jules :)

I'm glad it is suspended. I would have timed out on several games due to no access. They suspended it because so many people are having difficulty. It is explained on the brainking info page.