Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
My Google Alerts today picked up a post from a former colleague of mine, commenting on another post from the Yahoo! Interface blog.
I had some problems following the stream in the Performance Matters post, so I thought I would this post to clear up my thoughts.
A technical note up front: Using a waterfall chart that [...]
This post has two underlying reasons for existing: 1) to test out the new MSFT Live Writer Beta; and 2) to talk about a great story that GigaOm pointed us to today.
Om Malik pointed out a story in the Seattle Times today that talked about “Broadband in the Boonies”. Having grown up in the boonies [...]
In: smp
14 Aug 2005Ping-O-Matic. Weblogs.com.
Two of the sites that have seen surges in Web traffic recently.
My unsubstantiated theory is that as summer ends, Web traffic is seeing its usual surge, amplified by the new interest in blogs and Web 2.0 properties.
For the small companies who have effectively had the summer off, it’s time to re-adjust your capacity-planning estimates…upward.
Why? [...]
In: GrabPERF
4 Aug 2005Ok folks, now that GrabPERF has been up and running for a few weeks, and people have actually been looking at the data (including the CEO’s of two blog search tools!), it’s time to ask the community that is using this service to contribute to keep it running.
Decommissioned hardware. $20. I am not asking for [...]
In: GrabPERF
4 Aug 2005Ok folks, now that GrabPERF has been up and running for a few weeks, and people have actually been looking at the data (including the CEO’s of two blog search tools!), it’s time to ask the community that is using this service to contribute to keep it running.
Decommissioned hardware. $20. I am not asking for [...]
In: smp
14 Apr 2005Now, I never even heard about this Comcast outage until this morning. [here]
One reason that I likely didn’t notice it is that I run my own caching name servers on my home network. I do this because I have never trusted any provider’s overworked name servers (goes back to the history of the industry I [...]
In: smp
8 Apr 2005Joi Ito, at the ICANN meetings in Brazil, has posted some interesting comments and links regarding the exhaustion of the IPv4 Space. [here]
The growth in private IP Spaces has helped stave off this exhaustion, even through the massive growth in the home broadband and mobile markets. I forsee a compromise coming shortly where IPv6 is [...]
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6 Apr 2005Back in November, I mentioned that I was working on the idea of new ways to benchmark the success of online businesses in today’s more mature operational environment. I am still working on the base ideas, but a colleague of mine has helped me coalesce some ideas, and they are now forming the foundation of [...]
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15 Mar 2005I should not be running servers on my Comcast connection. BAD DOG! BAD DAMNATION HOUND!
Comcast should not make it so easy to spot, and then not be able to explain, a daily outage pattern
The nice lady in customer phone support said there were no problems in my area, but that she could not contact my [...]