Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0

Feedster: Reboot Again?

In: smp

31 Jul 2005

Feedster is exhibiting some truly unique behaviour.

Last time I heard that there was an issue with drive redundancy in their SAN. But twice in 2 weeks?

Technorati: Feedster, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
IceRocket: Feedster, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis

Click HERE!
Oh, and be patient. Unlike Google, my creaky server with it’s failing drives takes a while to generate the data.

Technorati: Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
IceRocket: Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis

You have to wonder about the resiliemcy of the human mind sometime; apparently as quickly as one dives into a deep funk, you get to bounce off the floor….
I’m Baaaaaaacccckkk!
If only to handle the flood from Dave Sifry’s post on Technorati’s performance improvement. [here]

Technorati: Technorati, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
IceRocket: Technorati, [...]

BlogPulse has improved, but it is still a very relative improvement.
Still no word from anyone on the BlogPulse team about the challenges they are facing.

Technorati: BlogPulse, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
IceRocket: BlogPulse, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis

Blogpulse appears to be suffering from a case of the terminal meltdown.

Does anyone at BlogPulse want to share with the community what the challenges they are facing are? No judgements are made here; the objective to share our Web performance tuning knowledge.

Technorati: BlogPulse, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
IceRocket: BlogPulse, Web Performance, [...]

Feedster: Success Crisis!

In: smp

18 Jul 2005

Yet another success crisis, this time from Feedster.

This is just amazing. Capacity Planning, Web performance, SEO, and traffic analysis go out the window when stuff like this happens.

Technorati: Feedster, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis

HTTP Compression is a well-acknowledged way to improve Web performance and decrease bandwidth usage by compressing text content before transmitting it to the client. This has become an increasingly interesting topic for Web 2.0 sites starting to experience their first growth pains.

COMPANY
COMPRESSION

Technorati
NO

Flickr
NO

Wikipedia
YES

Blogger
YES

Feedster
NO

Bloglines
YES

Gizmodo
YES

TypePad
YES

Weblogs INC
NO

Scripting News
NO

Memeorandum
NO

The sample above is far from representative. However, I would have thought [...]

Not many of you were likely reading this blog when I turned down the GrabPERF Web Performance Monitoring System a few months back (here). Well, today, I decided that I needed something to hold my interest and keep me busy, so I re-initialized the system.
It’s live here. Heck, I even fixed a couple of long-standing [...]

The continuing sad tale of Apple’s attempt to integrate podcasts into iTunes continues — Geek News Central has more.
I think that my desire for a Powerbook is decreasing the more I hear about Apple’s general stupidity regarding Web 2.0. It will take a long time for Apple to get their credibility back.

Technorati: Apple, podcasting, iTunes

As I discussed in this post, iTunes 4.9 was starting to cause some serious bandwidth issues for podcasters.
Geek News Central reports that iTunes appears to be be pulling some podcasts from a centralized cache server. [here]
This post also states that Apple has not told anyone that this is the case, let alone informing podcasters about [...]


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