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Offline bijou

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Finally, $kimmer apologises
« on: September 01, 2008, 02:30:57 PM »
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Skinner ADMIN  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-01-08 03:27 PM
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We apologize for the poor website performance today.
 Advertisements [?]As you may know, we upgraded our database server earlier this year in order to keep up with the expected increase in traffic this election year.

It just so happens that last Friday -- the day after Barack Obama's acceptance speech, and the day of John McCain's disastrous VP choice -- was our busiest day since election day of 2006. And our servers handled the massive traffic increase much better than we expected. We had to institute some minor limits on functionality, but overall we were very pleased with the results. We believed that we were probably going to be fine until November.

Or, um... until Monday.

It seems that the double-whammy of Hurricane Gustav and Governor Palin's soon-to-be-grandparent status has hit us even harder than the epic news day we had last Friday. The good news is that our new database server is handling the traffic very well. The bad news is that our three front-end servers are not keeping up with the stress. I suspect that this spike will be relatively short-lived, and we should be back to normal by the end of the day today.

I have instructed Elad to upgrade our three front-end servers as soon as possible. Because today is a holiday, he cannot start the process until tomorrow morning. We hope that we can have our upgrades finished relatively soon so that we will be ready for the next news spike. Which, if the track record of the McCain campaign is any indication, ought to be sometime in the next week or two.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

And while I have your attention: Our hearts go out the members of our DU family who live on the Gulf Coast. Be safe.

David Allen
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Perhaps he'll get round to apologising for the other stuff soon.  :whatever:
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Re: Finally, $kimmer apologises
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2008, 02:33:02 PM »
TRANSLATION: "Bilous liberal insanity is crashing our innerwebz!

"SEND MORE MONEY"
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Re: Finally, $kimmer apologises
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2008, 02:33:21 PM »
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It seems that the double-whammy of Hurricane Gustav and Governor Palin's soon-to-be-grandparent status has hit us even harder than the epic news day we had last Friday.


The servers are going into overload as the DUmmies furiously pound away on their keyboards venting their hate at someone smarter...prettier and richer than they are.
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Re: Finally, $kimmer apologises
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2008, 04:20:34 PM »
I haven't been able to get on all day. Me thinks that might be a good thing. :lmao:
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Re: Finally, $kimmer apologises
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2008, 04:25:08 PM »
Translation: a fundraiser is in the works. Pony up the cheeto money if you want to keep playing here.

I'm waiting for $kimmer to install some kind of program like they have on arcade games. A screen will pop up that says, "insert $ to keep playing".
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Re: Finally, $kimmer apologises
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2008, 06:02:42 PM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on September 01, 2008, 02:33:02 PM
TRANSLATION: "Bilous liberal insanity is crashing our innerwebz!

"SEND MORE MONEY"

Always the liberal solution to any problem.
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