b5media: Taking a Hit

by Aaron Brazell on January 25, 2006 · 7 comments

A few of you have emailed me commenting on my distantness lately. Let me explain. I’ve been working on getting a server prepped for b5media. As they continue to grow with leaps and bounds, they were quickly outgrowing their one server.

The point was underscored in the past 72 hours as a lucky blogger got lots of traffic to her blog, but to the detriment of everyone else on the server. You’ll see from this graph graph_hourly_site-trend_range.php.png(courtesy of grabPERF) just how hammered we were. I spent 6 hours on Monday night just trying to keep the main server above water. As you see from the graphs, we survived.

Not only did we survive that hit, I have now flipped the switches on the six biggest blogs, The Microsoft Weblog, the Windows Vista Blog, The Gadget Blog, the Blog Herald, Play-Girlz and Search Engine Herald, and they are serving from the new server. That should serve as a pressure valve and make things easier to deal with.

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Technosailor » b5media Needs New Servers
01.27.06 at 9:56 am

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Vaioarch 01.25.06 at 4:01 pm

I guess the new server is down, none of those links work.

-Vaioarch

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Vaioarch 01.25.06 at 4:01 pm

I guess the new server is down, none of those links work.

-Vaioarch

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Vaioarch 01.25.06 at 4:01 pm

I guess the new server is down, none of those links work.

-Vaioarch

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Aaron 01.25.06 at 4:09 pm

Yep, working that issue now… *sigh*

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Aaron 01.25.06 at 4:09 pm

Yep, working that issue now… *sigh*

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Aaron 01.25.06 at 4:09 pm

Yep, working that issue now… *sigh*

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