Apologies and Remedies
July 31st, 2006Mike and I would like to apologize if any of you had trouble accessing the server this morning (Monday morning US time). We think the combination of several volume accelerators - primarily our Itunes ranking - caused our server traffic to spike ENORMOUSLY.
How much did it spike?
A typical bandwidth day for us 60 gigs or so. When we get spikes, we go all the way up to 100 gigs in a day. That is often shortly after a cast is released, but not always (we don’t know why - it appears random). For the last several days, we have been at 100 gigs, and Mike has been carefully monitoring traffic and server load.
This morning, however, things REALLY spiked. Traffic increased by two orders of magnitude, so that at peak we were set to download about 10,000 gigs today - ten terabytes.
Mike has remedied this by offloading a bunch of casts to a new server we had contracted, and that has eased the load on our previous hosting site. Right now, as of 1:30 Eastern time, we’re showing the main site and the forums to be normally responsive.
Mike is also working on more strategic fixes, and those should be in place by the end of the week.
Sorry if you had some slow download times, and sorry if the site was unresponsive. [And, thanks for all the traffic.]
Please send mail to show@manager-tools.com if you have continuing issues.
Would love to hear what everyone thinks of the free premium content for the monthly show, as well.
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July 31st, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Congratulations on that volume of demand! The release of the “Preparing for your Annual Review” materials surely drove the downloads.
It’s great to know that many people are itching for MT content.
July 31st, 2006 at 2:29 pm
M/M -
If you are interested, I know of another podcast that has dealt with very similar issues. Let me know if you want the guy’s name, and you might be able to leverage some lessons learned from his cast.
jason
July 31st, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Hello guys,
I am really blown away from the material you have prepared for the podcast. The slides and the forms gives a very good guideline and tool later on for preparing you own review.
By the way: Who is “H” and has taken the huge burden to write the transcript?
One additional comment: The transcript is a real transcript in the sense that it contains nearly all the words being said and jokes being made during the podcast. In my opinion such a level of detail does make perfectly sense in case you have no access to the actually said words (like e.g. a newspaper is transcripting for the reader an interview they’ve made). But in our case we can always go back to listen to all the details and niceties in the podcast. Therefore I would like to put up the idea for discussion whether it wouldn’t be more efficient for the users (aka us, the audience) to have a more “condensed” version of the podcast. In the level of details somewhere in the middle between the slides and the actual podcast. I know that it would be more work, but it might be worth a try.
I love the show and have learnt a lot, keep up the good work!
All the best for your big commitment.
Tamas
August 1st, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Hi M&M
Just last week I recommended MT to 6 friends of mine, so, if the other listners are doing something like this it’s only natural that demand is increasing.
You just have to blame yourselves for that
Keep up the good work!
Diogo Garrido
August 1st, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Tamas-
I am H.
I did not, however, do the entire transcipt. I edited it from a transcript we paid for from a service we use. The “H” comments were extras that I added. There was a great deal that I took out, because reading a transcript at times can be hard.
Thanks for the suggestion about something “between” the transcript and the slides. We might go there, but not in the immediate future.
Thanks for listening, glad you’re a part of our community!
Mark
August 1st, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Diogo-
We are quite adept at self-flaggelation, thank you very much.
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We promise to keep our standards high for all of you.
Mark