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16 February 2007 1 Comment

Grey’s Anatomy Killed Us

Forget Digg. We get Dugg all the time. But tonight’s killer (no pun intended) episode of Grey’s Anatomy had the Digg x 10 effect on us via Grey’s Anatomy News. Heh. Downtime is never funny. The unexpected surge and unexpected source knocked us over, and looking back, was kind of funny. Screenshot of Server Logs
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18 December 2006 Comments Off

Server Wonkiness

No, it’s not just you. We have a lot of server stuff happening on the b5 cluster right now. We lost one of our main servers to a hardware malfunction so the other two are valiantly trying to keep up with the increased load. Unfortunately, they aren’t doing too well. In the long term, we [...]

4 November 2006 22 Comments

New b5media Website and Servers

Since funding was announced, we have been aware of the fact that the old b5media website was simply not adequate. Actually, I think, we’ve known that for some time yet our priorities have always been on our bloggers and member blogs. And we haven’t departed from that at all. Earlier this evening, we launched the [...]

16 August 2006 56 Comments

So You Want to Host My Servers? 8 Requirements for a Data Center

A good system or cluster of systems is absolutely essential for reliable uptime for a website or service. Even more importantly is the quality of the data center provider that is supporting your servers. This may be as close to any kind of “from the horse’s mouth” as you’re going to get but we have [...]