November 4, 2004
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SERVER UPDATE
Our servers have been struggling recently, trying to keep up with our growing traffic levels.
The thing is – we have lots of new equipment just *waiting* to be installed in our ISP! But we’ve installed so much equipment recently that we’ve run out of space for new equipment. And getting new space from our ISP has turned out to be a long and tortuous process. It’s slowly killing us (and you too, I’m sure!) to see our old equipment struggle with the traffic…
But we’ve finally received word that we should be able to upgrade our equipment this week! This is actually a really big upgrade for us: we’re upgrading our databases, our webservers AND our fileservers. So pretty much everything should be better, stronger, faster…
There may be a few minutes of downtime involved, but we’ll probably do that super early in the morning sometime (we’re planning on Sat morning). We’ll announce the downtime ahead of time, but we also wanted to let you know that we’re aware that our servers aren’t always happy. I wanted to let you know, we’re very sorry about this… and excited that they’re about to get much happier very soon!
Comments (56)
Yay, thanks for the fantastic news.
You are all the greatest…what a gift you have given us with your Xanga!
woooooooo
Growing traffic indeed. As of the writing of this post, according to Alexa.com, Xanga.com is the 14th most trafficed English site, and the 36th most popular website in the world. Well done.
aaa finally! and on my toolbar it shows xanga as #32
hi john
great news all around. the scary part is that i actually understand the underlying technicality of it all.
Awesome! Congrats on getting the go ahead, and thanks for all of your hard work
Damn. I’m going to be raking leaves Saturday and was going to invite all of you (Janet, too) to come help. Fine. FINE! Just another lame excuse.
No problems with the servers for me…an occasional glitch but the bug’s kind of a cute little dude.
Have a good time. No grumbling. And relax afterward.
yay!! new upgrades!! thx for it!! really appreciate of u guys givin us xanga!!
Awesometastic!
~Depreciated
WERD! thanks for making xanga free and letting us join up to 8 blogrings..=D
That’ll be great…haven’t had much problem except at really busy hours.
oh my god 14th comment cant’ believe it
Yay, happy servers.
Great job Xangagods. Thank you.
YAY………ROCK ON DUDE
soundz like a lot ov work, thanx (erbodi) 4 makin xanga great =D. u guyz wake up at the strangest ov times 2 make sure our xanga fun iznt interupted, and u are greatly appreciated ^_^. an da saturdai time iz great, cuz i usualli get up at around 12 =P. thanx again.
Wow. Everyone sure is excited to hear about downtime
But yeah glad to hear it. Alexa has your site rated at “very slow.”
But yeah I bet you guys are getting slammed with post-election traffic. A guy I know at another blogging service that will remain nameless said they doubled traffic thanks to people posting about the election.
You guys should really make a point of letting everyone on Xanga know. Most people I know don’t visit the homepage and if they do it’s to see FC.
Coolness.
thanks~
You guys do a great job….. and thanks for the Tee shirt, too!
John,
Thanks for the “heads up” before hand… it really makes it much more tolerable.
I hope you have an easy time of it for you guys….
Tina
lol! i want a xanga t-shirt! you guys have any plans on setting up a xanga store btw?? hey great job guys! keep up the good work!
That’s awesome. I can’t wait for the new equipment. Take your time and kKeep up the good work.
I don’t feel like I have the right to complain about anything since I don’t have to pay for this wonderful service.
yay for the upgrades.. boo to the downtime lol
you make xanga a safe place for us all.
wow John thanks for that info
gambatte ne
Good to hear =]
So… what’s with the popups on the main page of xanga now? I’ve even got two pop-up blockers…
john subscribe!!!!!!!!!!!!
I never Exsperience amy down time with xanga!! Xanga is best when it comes to free blogs.
re your post on the boygenius (NotforProphet) – I wrote a bit on it, but thought I would come here and say a bit less
Your rating system sounds great, my friends who write and post porn would happily go along with it. Maybe those people who have genuine porn blogs could be allowed to do it so long as they have no commercial links (unless they want to pay you!) and are willing to do protected posts only.
My 13 year old (InternetPirate) is a little more naive than most kids growing up on a small island with no porn magazines, no movie theatres and no tv. He loves to look at porn but he ain’t allowed. Not yet, its a grown-up pleasure for time to come.
Didn’t know you minded being called Xangagods, creators of our virtual universe
I just saw at Alexa.com…Xanga is in the #1 for Weblog sites. This has even beat out Blogger. lol.
Anyway, Xanga rocks. Keep up the great work!
Muahhh!!!
If I were President: “… a chicken in every pot, and a Server for every Xangan!”
heyy. i want a xanga tshirt!!
I miss your real posts.
I always find your service terrific, and it’s lovely to know you are always striving to make it even better !
no worries~~ **waits**
Hey
i just wanna say
THANKS FOR MAKING XANGA A COOL PLACE I’VE MEET SOME GREAT PEOPLE LIKE HENRY ON IT IT IS SO FUN I JUST CAN’T WAIT TO TELL MY FRIENDS ABOUT IT
WELL HOPE YOU COMMENT ME BACK
LOVE
KAITE
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Thank you for doing such a great job.
Question: Can you seperate eprops from comments so that one or the other can be disabled? Not everyone wants to be on featured but does like to exchange comments and ideas.
Thanks!
do u ever comment back to “regular” people’s comments?
Hey John!
Hi. Be blessed today
Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Psalms 27:14 “Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.”
Peace
John I love xanga. Thank you for all you do. Check out my xanga because knowing you (which I don’t) I think you would be proud to see what we’ve done with the concept of xanga.I’m proud of the idea, and I feel as though I bring our community together.
it’s really impressive how xanga manages to dominate the other weblog alternatives online…
must be the good service =P
Hello,
I’ve been looking through your rules to try and see if porn is allowed on xangas, which i’m hoping is NOT that case. I have come across several xangas that have porn on them, & I was wondering if I can report them if they are not allowed,
Please leave me a comment & let me knwo if you can.
yes…I am having a problem I would like to end my Xanga premium asap please as soon as possible. Please return an e-mail stating that it will no longer be available thanks.
Yes please end my xanga premium. I no longer want to be billed for November and please send me an e-mail ASAP when it is confirmed…thank you!
real nice of u
myspace sucks.
Hey what is up. I would like to meet you!
From mystery person
Woo-hoo! A member of the Xanga team’s blog! Well, I just decided to comment here because of the opportunity to increase traffic to my site. Selfish, huh?
can u give me the code to replace words??? plzz and thank u!
lacie