Even with online chess’ resurgence in popularity, we can still feel the halcyon days (if any) of the covid pandemic. However, the world’s largest chess website has fallen victim to the success of Kings his game as its servers struggle to keep up with the game’s online popularity.
Yesterday, Chess.com, the premier platform for online chess matches, announced Official statement in blog post He explained why the servers were struggling, why the game was so popular, and how he planned to fix the website’s database crash. PC gamer.
According to Chess.com, website traffic has doubled since December and the app has surged to become the second most popular free game on the US iOS app store. In his five days in January, Chess.com set a new site record for active members, reaching his one million hits from Google for the first time on January 19th. The site shows no signs of slowing down considering he has over 1 million games played regularly per hour.
Chess.com said the chess boom was due to “lockdowns, Pogchamps, and Queen’s ruse on netflixA prominent feature of the game’s popularity over the last three years is the photograph of the football player. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo playing the game, The infamous anal beads scandalhosting popular streamers Quirky Chess Tournament.
“When chess started booming during the COVID-19 lockdown, our servers struggled to handle the traffic. We invested heavily in hardware and other improvements to allow us to scale. I did,” Chess.com said in a statement. “when Queen’s ruse After the boom, there was a further significant increase in traffic, but there was little disruption to service. ”
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To further illustrate how stressed the Chess servers are, Chess.com added a graph of the site’s daily active members. According to the site, over 250,000 new accounts are created every day. In addition to having to account for thousands of players commenting and chatting during matches, the Chess.com database also accommodates a staggering average of 16,000 chess moves per second. Have to.
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Chess.com is technically in good trouble, but nonetheless it is still a problem causing the database to become skewed under the stress of its concurrent player base. In fact, while writing this article, Chess.com Landing page is down due to data overload.
“To address the challenges faced by databases, we are isolating database tables, sharding databases, and placing services in memory. Each of these will take some time, as there is so much data to move,” wrote Chess.com. “We’re also working on more ‘graceful’ failures, so when things go sideways and everything is exhausted, we can recover faster and with less interruption.” ”
Chess.com has stabilized the online experience for players and reassured players that it plans to roll out a “shorter-term fix” that will provide a better, more stable experience by later this week, according to a blog post. I just finished my post. Other major updates will be implemented in the next 2-3 weeks.
“We love you, we feel you and we are sorry. When 15 million, or even 20 million people are playing, Chess.com writes: “Chess is incredible and we are thrilled to share this game with you. think.”