Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Web Performance
24 Jul 2006I came in this morning to read on Netcraft that MySpace had been knocked offline by a power outage at their datacenter. [here]
The question is now one of how did this happen. There should have been contingency planning in the extreme for this type of event, especially for operations in the Western US. Backup generators, [...]
In: Uncategorized
15 Jul 2006Gee, I guess you don’t want my business anymore…
Technorati Tags: American Express, Web performance, outage
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
3 May 2006Ok, looks like the GrabPERF server was unreachable from 00:36 GMT until 01:24 GMT (20:36 EST – 21:24 EST).
This is very embarassing, as I am the one who is usually calling out folks for outages.
I will be checking with my hosting team to see what the root cause was.
Excuse me while I decide what to [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
27 Mar 2006Netcraft reported that World of Warcraft was having a wee bit o’ performance hell. [here]
Guess a few wizards are going through withdrawal right now.
Looks like Joi Ito, a serious World of Warcraft fiend, might have to mount up his troops for an all out assault on this one!
PS: Looks like it just staggered to life! [...]
In: Web Performance
17 Nov 2005Two separate cuts. [here]
Ugh.
Not again.
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
30 Oct 2005Just noticed this.
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Anyone have troubles getting PubSub sites today?
Technorati: PubSub
IceRocket: PubSub
Wow. It’s not often you read something like this.
Oh yeah, it’s the blogosphere.
Take away quote:
The question then is: if you ran out of space and were having problems, why did you continue to take on new customers during this period? Surely a responsible business with serious capacity issues would have closed their doors to new [...]
In: GrabPERF
26 Oct 2005For reasons that I have yet to discover, my outbound connection to the Internet appears to have been down between the times listed in the title.
As I have said before, my connection is less than “professional grade”, i.e. “don’t do this at home”.
If I find a cause, I will update.
I apologize for the incovenience.
UPDATE: Ouch.
Found [...]
In: GrabPERF
16 Oct 2005Last night, I upgraded the Local Network GrabPERF measurement Agent to the WWW-Curl-3.02 PERL module. I will be doing the same thing on the Gomez Agent tomorrow morning, once I bring it back up from it’s power-outage induced slumber.
In: smp
11 Oct 2005CLICK IMAGE
’nuff said.
UPDATE: From Technorati
10.11.2005
TypePad Service
The TypePad application is currently experiencing performance degradation. You may be experiencing application errors due to the issue with published blog content noted below. We are aware of the issue and are working hard to correct it as soon as possible; we apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE (1:10 pm) We have [...]