MacWorld Keynote Update
We would like to apologize to all of our users and their readers for the service outage that happened mid-day on January 15. CoveritLive was specifically designed to handle small and very VERY large live blog events like the Steve Jobs Keynote at MacWorld. Our issue appears to have been a very minor technical one on our end that was amplified dramatically by the extremely heavy traffic from around the world as many new users and hundreds of thousands of first time readers visited our customers who were hosting live blogs. We do not need to make any structural changes to handle this type of load in the future but we do need to make sure our Quality Assurance process is tighter. This was a case of one loose screw taking us down.
We very much appreciate your patience and understand any frustration you experienced. To our new users, we hope you see the benefit in our software and will give it another try. To our existing users, most of you have given us great feedback in the past and we have been very responsive. Please stick with us and have faith that we will adjust quickly to stop this kind of thing happening again.
Thank you,
Keith McSpurren
President, CoveritLive
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honestly John, I told you not to use the service.
:-)
pwned.
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…and by captain crunch himself, no less!
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Today was a bust just about everywhere. It was like walking through hip deep syrup trying to get to the dang pancake. Except syrup in the offline world is good. Online, sucks.
which is why the eonomist predicted a slowdown in the www, too many cool apps chasing too little bandwidth, server capacity, and qc
get used to it
This is not evidence of a slowdown in the web – though I’m sure Verizon and AT&T would love to spin it that way. This is a case of an overloaded server or two and perhaps some badly written code.
Honestly, if there was concern over bandwidth scarcity then why would providers be considering IPTV?
Yeah, I was posting up live blogging sources for the keynote yesterday for Visual Editors when I saw all these live blogging attempts fail.
I have more examples in the forum post. Macrumors tech has always been the best at live blogging.
For the past few years they have beaten everyone hands down with text and photos. The qik.com crowd with their N95 camera phones were crunched down too as qik servers failed, often.
I did get to hear live audio from iJustine’s qik feed. the video bandwidth was wasted as she must have had it on her lap and pointed to the roof. for fear, no doubt, of being detected. Wonder if they will ban n95s in future. Hmm.
Twitter was useless.
More at http://www.visualeditors.com including the video that shows the Steve Jobs keynote in only 60 seconds.