Quote Originally Posted by Ninimo_Babamo View Post
*snip* 1k char
I see this excuse a lot from people, but here's the thing, about 1% of traffic to the forums will be actual posts, most is people requesting pages (refreshing, opening the forums etc) therefore these restrictions alone have very little impact (look at the beta forums, they were inaccessible a lot due to congestion, with these restrictions) also the forums are hosted on a different server (possibly at a different location) when the forums are inaccessible it's only the forums that are affected, therefore it doesn't matter how much server usage is allocated to what unless they are going to swap chips between servers, and possibly even datacenters.