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Tuesday 16th of June was a special day for My Opera too.

Opera Unite was released at 09:00 CEST, and just after that, the amount of traffic and visitors to My Opera increased quickly, to reach the highest peak around 18:00 UTC.

This was also the highest peak ever reached for My Opera. On that day, we finally broke the 2 million page views per day, that sums up to more than 100M hits and 600,000 unique visitors just that day.

We're very happy about this. Yes, the site was not completely usable, and sometimes it was serving pages very slowly, but still we managed to keep it running. We hacked together some quick and dirty fixes to achieve this. Some of those hacks have been removed now, and we're working on applying them permanently to the site.

For the curious/interested, I'm referring to what we call the "User" module, that provides most of the user-related information. When you open a page on My Opera, we call the user module at least for:

• the visiting user (you), and
  
• the user "owner" of the page (the my.opera.com/<this_bit_here>)
  

Not a case that this is the most called module throughout the whole web site, so we want to optimize it and make it really fast, ideally around a few milliseconds.

Here's a few munin charts, of the database connections (this is a weekly chart, so look around the "16"):



And of one of our backends, with a rough timeline of what happened:



Of course, there's still a lot of work to do, and we know which are the slower parts of the site. That might change while the community grows bigger and bigger every day. We will keep up. :-)