What a Day!

October 22nd, 2009 by admin

It’s almost 10 pm here, 10 hours after the launch and I can’t remember working so hard in one day in a long time.

I can tell that not only was the Blastoff server having issues, but many other, non-related sites like Twitter, Alexa, Facebook, and even this blog were all receiving so much traffic that our systems were all running slow!

Here is what Blastoff’s CEO had to say about it tonight:

Have any of you ever seen a movie where someone hits an oil well that comes in so big that the rig blows and oil spews in the air? Well that’s what happened today – we hit the mother load.

At 12:00 noon today we had so much traffic that a load balancer (a piece of equipment that connects our website to multiple data centers) crashed. I am happy to say that this equipment has now been replaced and is working fine. When this happened, our database server was taxed pretty hard which has created some performance issues on the site.

At this point the majority of the database issues are under control and Blastoff sites are going live all over America – we expect to be back on all cylinders very soon.

We have heard from a lot of you worrying that some people’s invites might be going out while other’s are not. Because of this, the invites are being held until everyone’s site is back online. You can go ahead and upload your contacts but they will not be sent until everyone’s site is up and running properly. We are anticipating this happening by sometime later this evening.

Thanks,
Bill Rodgers

I hope things normalize over the night and they can get all this backlogged traffic finally served… In fact, I would really just be happy to be able to get into my Blastoff portal tomorrow and see my downline! (Surely one or two of you signed up from here, right?

Anyway, if you haven’t been able yet to have any fun with your own Blastoff account, just hang in there… I was using mine as my home page every day for weeks now and it ran smooth as silk every time. They’ll get this traffic issue worked out soon and you’ll be changing your surfing habits in a big way.

Goodnight for now, … Sleep well deserved…