Updates, updates
… where the @#$& are the updates? … Sorry for the lack of updates guys, we’ve been so busy for the past few months that some of you might think that we’ve dropped off the face of the earth. Anyway … this is going to be a long post … so, if you have some time … make sure you read everything. Let’s start with the current state of affair.
As you might have noticed that our site was barely crawling along during the early summer (June and July) and most often time it’s unresponsive. This is basically due to the fact that the server is processing more than 400 requests at once. At once point we have to hard reset the server twice in 3-days period, and restarted the server twice in one night. It was a real pain since the server was unresponsive so issuing a restart command take up to 30 minutes before it was initialized. Since then, we’ve disabled some of the auxiliary features to try to squeeze out as much resource as possible. Of course, with the current rate of increase we will need a better server before long. Anyway, the server seemed to be a bit more stable now, so let’s see how long that will last. Remember, this is a beta project … therefore, things will be broken at times. That’s why there a beta badge on the logo … it’s there for a reason. Read the rest of this entry »
