It’s the first day back after the last long weekend of the summer. There is a a great amount of news flooding the intertubes, and what happens?

TechCrunch has a small issue.

It’s likely they’ll be back soon, but it’s still an interesting thing to see.

Update - 09:17 EDT (13:17 GMT)

TechCrunch is back up as of 08:49 EDT (12:49 GMT).

Tags: GrabPERF, outage, techcrunch, Web Performance

It’s always funny when somewhat tech-savvy folks purposely make their bandwidth bills higher than they need to be.

Here’s TechCrunch’s HTTP header response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:02:23 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2 PHP/5.2.0-8 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0-8
X-Pingback: http://www.techcrunch.com/xmlrpc.php
Status: 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"

Port80 Software’s Compression Checker gives us some idea how much bandwidth Mr. Arrington, et al. could save just by activating this little feature, which comes baked into Apache 2.2.x.

Turn. On. Mod_deflate.

Tags: apache, ARIN, bandwidth, compress, compression, content, deflate, EAD, GrabPERF, HTML, HTTP, IE, IM, IP, ISP, it, LAN, Om, performance, PHP, pr, run, server, ssl, techcrunch, Technorati, web, Web Performance

Michael Arrington’s latest Crunch product, CrunchGear, is getting beat up this morning.

Ouch!

In the past, these would not appear as errors, but the new text match feature in GrabPERF is working like a charm. The new code is up on 3 of the 5 measurement agents, and the remaining 2 should be updated by tomorrow.

Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, Web+performance, CrunchGear, TechCrunch, Michael+Arrington

Tags: app, ARIN, GrabPERF, HTTP, IE, IM, it, measurement, Om, performance, pr, run, techcrunch, Technorati, update, web, Web+performance

I heard (via TechCrunch and Om Malik and PubSub) that there is some … transition at PubSub.

Now, I have a soft spot in my heart for PubSub, because Bob Wyman was the first person to really notice and appreciate the things I was doing at GrabPERF. I wonder what the future holds for this team.

Frankly, I would agree with Michael Arrington’s comment that PubSub is a likely acquisition target. They do offer a very interesting service, but as a standalone offering, the opportunities are becoming increasingly narrow. As part of a larger Social Web/Web 2.0 firm with a broad range of products, PubSub’s technology could become the glue that holds the various parts together.

Update: Salim Ismail, the now retired CEO, posts his own comments here.

Technorati Tags: PubSub, blog search, Web 2.0, management, acquisition

Tags: Acquisition, app, blog, GigaOm, GrabPERF, HTTP, IE, IM, it, leave, Malik, Om, Om Malik, One, posts, pr, run, search, steps, techcrunch, Technorati, update, web, web 2.0

Some random GrabPERF link love from the Web.

Technorati hosting blog pageload timing service

BlogDrive Server Performance

Thank you TechCrunch!

b5media: Taking a Hit

Technorati Tags: GrabPERF

Tags: blog, book, GrabPERF, HTML, HTTP, IM, it, media, Om, performance, run, server, techcrunch, Technorati, web