Mike Macgirvin
Diary and Other Rantings
Beyond Silicon Valley
   
Wednesday, Jul 09 2008, 12:34 pm
Jan 31, 2007
traffic and more traffic

Sorry folks for the problems connecting this morning. Had our very first million hit day, and the servers in La Brea weren't ready for it - and neither was I....

It was a combination of several things converging at once. Shamita Shetty  apparently was exposed on the Style Ikon channel, and even with an overlaid star to protect the family jewels it seems that a bunch of folks from the UK couldn't get enough of it. Wonder what this incident did to the transatlantic backbones...

But what really killed the servers was that as this was going on - Google, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves and a couple of other search engines all converged on 10-12 of my sites at the same time to do their normally periodic crawls. Normally I'll get one or two crawlers doing one or two sites a day. 

 

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mike (Mike Macgirvin)
January 31, 2007 11:57
[*TOP MEMBER*] mike
Things seem to have now returned to a normal state of chaos.

February 1, 2007 01:56
MichaelAnn
Ah ha! I was wondering what happened to ya! So you have been elevated to the lofty million-air club? Congrats! :)

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Jan 28, 2007
Tech Support

This belongs to MichaelAnn. Reproduced here because I love it. I would normally just import the feed except this one is setup with teaser (short) feeds where all the articles are chopped off in mid [...]

You've reached support, how may I help you?

 

 

 

Comments:

January 29, 2007 04:59
MichaelAnn
Hey! Cool! I'm gonna be famous! Hi Mike! :)
One of my favorite support dialogs always begins with:
me: What operating system are you using? Windows or Mac?
caller: I don't know... how can I find out?
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