Thanks to all the team last night - it was great to have all that information to hand!

Seeing as the function is disabled at the moment, we can only assume the record was broken again last night? And what sort of bandwidth was it sucking up?

I would also like to say thanks to the DS Team for their excellent work in keeping the forums running during record visitor numbers. Well done and keep up the good work.

I can only imagine that the record was destroyed in a manner akin to the buffet table at a fancy dress party with a harem.

Just like to add my thanks too! Can't believe I went to bed at 12 and missed the whole thing, but I was able to read the live updates in the morning. Thanks

I couldn't get on the forums all morning (reminded me of when I tried to get Glastonbury tickets) but I was very grateful for the regular 15-minute updates and news stories.

Big thumbs up to the DS staff.

The only stats I have are forum ones and then only when I happen to check how many users are online. At 9.30 this morning there were 4047 people accessing the forums. James or Neil might be able to offer more numbers later.

Bx.

You would have been proud of Stuart.

Do we know what they are using for a platform? I see the forum is PHP so I am assuming its some sort of LAMP setup....

Maybe they should talk to the slashdot boys about handling loads....

Thanks Beth!

Yeh, so we broke the record by about 1000 i believe?

Any other stats ?

I'd just like to echo James' comments and say thankyou to everyone for their kind words here and through to the contact centres, personal email and the LU message service.

The kind of activity levels we've experienced today are unprecedented - although the full stats aren't available yet, I'd say it's been Digital Spy's busiest day ever.

On DS:BB, we had a week's worth of traffic to the news and LUs in the space of around 12 hours, including a massive amount in the 'dead' hours (2am - 6am) when things were kicking off.

Several news articles on DS:BB have been viewed more times than any other article on Digital Spy since we started taking detailed recordings of individual artice stats in March (for those curious, the previous highest was an article on Orlando Bloom being James Bond). The lead article on Digital spy's main site has similarly been viewed (almost) more times than any other article has over the three-month period.

The forum record did indeed smash 4000 users - I think this was in fact during the 'dead' hours also. Session limiting has been in place for the most part of today else we'd easily have topped that.

We managed to hold this with no downtime at all to the main content servers and minimal downtime to the forums (any outages you would have recived were as you waited in the 'queue' to get in).

So a massive thanks also to the reporters and other staff for pullling together today but also a gigantic thanks to all of you for choosing us as your news/chat outlet of choice.

Neil
Digital Spy Ltd

Thanks to all at DS - we know a good thing when we see it (wink) but did you have to tell all these other peeps too.

FB

Well done DS, i see you've made news on both the Media Guardian and Web User website!

Haha... aw I know I would have, bless him, trying to stop the fighting... comforting Michelle... what a hero!

A pat on the back & a virtual beer for everyone at DS, good work everybody

I'd also like to add my thanks to everyone involved in DS.

I sent the web address for DS:BB to a WHOLE lot of people this morning. Well, they all asked me how I knew so much about what happened last night (before the story started to appear on the news feeds elsewhere).

Lovin your work DS:BB! I cant imagine what your bandwidth bill will be for this month!!

Totally reliable as always especially when other sites seem to fail their audience (channel4 comes to mind) So thanks guys for the hard work during the most eventful night ever in BB history and for suppling this free of charge to us all.

Thank you.