Tag: 2005

Web Performance: Dear American Red Cross, You have a problem

2005-09-02 / spierzchala / 0 Comments

American Red Cross:

I know you have other things on your plate right now, but you seem to have a DNS problem.

redcross.org.           86400   IN      NS      arcdns3.redcross.org.
redcross.org.           86400   IN      NS      arcdns2.redcross.org.
redcross.org.           86400   IN      NS      arcdns1.redcross.org.
;; Received 172 bytes from 204.74.112.1#53(TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET) in 46 ms


redcross.org.           3600    IN      A       162.6.217.197
redcross.org.           3600    IN      NS      arcdns2.redcross.org.
redcross.org.           3600    IN      NS      arcdns1.redcross.org.
;; Received 122 bytes from 162.6.217.142#53(arcdns2.redcross.org) in 33 ms

The name server arcdns3.redcross.org (162.6.90.141) either doesn’t exist, or is broken. Unfortunately, the Top-Level DNS servers still have it on file.

The site is working great [here]. Except for the DNS issues.
Keep up the good work.

Hmmm….

2005-08-12 / spierzchala / 0 Comments

Keynote Announces Settlement of Litigation

HMMMMM…missed this one the first time…bet there’s a story here…

BlogPulse: Recovery is a relative thing

2005-07-26 / spierzchala / 0 Comments

BlogPulse has improved, but it is still a very relative improvement.

Still no word from anyone on the BlogPulse team about the challenges they are facing.

London Explosions: Web performance impact

2005-07-07 / spierzchala / 0 Comments

Most of the time, I leave the morbid Web performance post-mortems to my former employer. However, I had to note that the flash traffic resulting from the explosions in London has effectively crushed the Web sites of the BBC (main site, not the news site), Sky News, and ITN.

This information is purely anecdotal; I am having incredible difficulty getting to any of these sites from here in the US.

On a side note, Technorati is either responding very slowly, or not at all. Not sure if this related to the events in London, or some other event.

This is shocking. Listening to Tony Blair, you could hear the anger in his voice.

UPDATE: Flickr Pool

UPDATE: Steve Rubel tells us that he is experiencing similar performance degradadtion. He also points to Jeff Jarvis linking to bloggers on the bombing.