Fallout 4 Coninues to Send Traffic to Nexus Mods
Fans of Fallout are flocking to the games and Nexus Mods is feeling the effects. Amazon Prime has driven massive spikes in traffic, and a new update offers a fresh look at the site’s challenges.
“We are aware that over the last 7-9 days our website performance has been heavily degraded, with file download speeds being particularly slow,” community management lead Demorphic says in a news post. “We know this has been incredibly frustrating for you and it’s frustrating for us as well. We have spent two weekends battling to keep the site running as best we can and will continue to work at all hours to try and ensure as smooth an experience as possible.”
This coincides with the launch of the Amazon Prime series on April 10. Charts show Fallout 4 with a spike in mod downloads starting around April 12. The growth revealed increases from less than 1.5 million downloads per day to nearly 7.5 million.
“As you can see, Fallout 4 and Fallout New Vegas have seen big spikes on the site, contributing to peaks of 24 million total file downloads per day, compared to a norm of 10 million daily downloads,” Demorphic writes. “Between Friday and Sunday we served over 6.3PB (6,300 TB) of mods to our users. That averages out at a constant 194 Gbits per second. This is equivalent to downloading the entire Skyrim SE game twice every second for several days.”