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4/27 4:15am’ish 6lbs 11ozs
So the UnlockTheAchievement.com contest is over - that turned out to be a pretty interesting little project to build - and it ended up being a pretty good success in my opinion. As stated before it brought to light some issues on 360friendspot.com which I am looking into and moving some stuff around on the site, so if you see something funky that is probably why.
This weekend we recorded Episode #5 of the 360voice podcast. It is a short and sweet episode, mostly just to officially release information on the big news releasing today about 360voice’s merger with gamerdna, on that same subject you can hear me speak a little on The Xbox podcast. It is a great move for the site which will allow it to expand, flourish, and shine even more then it does today. ChangeAgent and Fatty Chubs have all ready (mostly) moved up to Cambridge, and are rocking out as full staff at gamerdna. No longer do they have the distraction of a day job in the way of working their 360voice (and other gamerdna properties) but the day job IS working on those sites.
I am sure there is more, but another post is just a click away when I remember what it could have been
Not 100% sure what is going on - I got an email from the host about high CPU usage and was attempting to look at the things they provided me as troubleshooting steps, but they seemed to have disabled the site for now.
I know the traffic was up more then it has been in quite some time, but it wasn’t high enough that it should have been affecting the CPU usage of the shared server (which is what they mentioned in the email from support).
So I am currently waiting for a response from support about the site, and if the site was going to be this active on a regular basis I definately would have to start looking into upgraded the hosting plan again - all though it really looks like there is some problem with one of the apps I have running on the site which is what is slowing it (and apparently many other sites) down.
I’ll post more if/when I know more to post!
Today was an interesting day to say the least. For starters, I was in charge of a pretty big change at work - the task at hand was to change a single server which currently houses about 5 live websites, as well as the databases for those webistes and about 15 or so windows applications (and even an access 97 database ’application’) to be split into two brand new beefier servers. One for those websites, and the other for the database server. So that involved updating all those sites to run against a remote database and updating all of the applications to point to a new database server - and just for some extra spice we upgraded from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005. Today was the fall out from that change this weekend - which actually had very little issues, so job well done i guess!
Next on the plate was this little site called UnlockTheAchievement.com - it seems to be a bit popular, maybe you have heard of it? I knew it was going to do pretty well, but it has surpassed (at least my) expectations…I am just glad that the code all works - though the server has had its trouble off and on, I don’t think it is code related. The server has been hit with a pretty good amount of traffic from, xbox360fanboy.com, xbox.com, digg.com as well as the 40 some community sites which are hiding the images as well as promoting the site. From that site has been a pretty good amount spillage over to my blog here (I have never had this many visitors!) as well as 360friendspot. Both of them are hosted on my shared hosting plan - which apparently is taking a pretty big performance hit from the new found traffic (oops!).
…If you code it….they will come
Yeah, the title of this post means absolutely nothing. I just was having a hard time coming up with a title for a post about pretty much nothing [:)] I haven’t blogged in a while, on any of my sites actually so I figured I should take a bit of time and change that. Be warned, when I start thinking “I haven’t blogged in a while”, the posts usually end up just me rambling away, mostly about things you couldn’t care less about. You have been warned!
