Unusual Activity on another MSE Thread

DirectDebacle

I am not techie at all.This may be something or nothing. I regularly post on this thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=822299&page=49

It has been going for about a year and up until last week had received about 45000 views. Today it is fast approaching 70000!

I cannot believe that the thread has suddenly become that popular. I have emailed MSE about it but it is pot luck if anyone reads the email. No other threads seem to be suffering from this many hits and I was wondering if an attempt to crash it was being made. There is potentially a vast amount of money to be reclaimed.

Any ideas? If so please advise. Can a thread be crashed or would it have to be the whole site.

Agrajag

Surely all the attention is down to Martin's mention in this week's email and his edit of the 1st post.
That is where I came in from

DirectDebacle

Maybe you are right and I am being over suspicious. A lot of hard work has been done on this by a whole host of contributors. I for one would not like to see it wiped out. No harm in checking. If all is legit then good stuff. More people such as yourself are aware of being potentialy overcharged. If not then forewarned is forearmed.

piggeh

it takes a lot more than 20,000 hits over a week to 'crash' a thread (or server), if its been placed in the newsletter then it would seem like a reasonable response.

They could check refering urls but they can easily be faked.

SunnySusie

^^ exactly

The MSE servers will be geared up to handle PVs (page views) in the order of millions. I would also imagine they have caching so that the page isn't being generated on each view, ie it builds it once then shows that to each new visitor until someone posts in which case a new page is generated. This saves a lot of CPU power, avoids DB queries, etc.