Thursday, March 31

on brownies and servers...

We've stopped sending out invites for the previous 12 hours. 400,000 are in que - our servers finally gave in to the immense load. A big thank you to Michael from Bebo.com for helping us out. We've ordered brand new dual Xenon machines (absolutely top of the line) with one of the best hosting companies out there (Microsoft hosts with them). So by tomorrow, the Shizbot will send out invitations - we're expecting half a million hits tomorrow!

On the personal side, we're all exhausted. Yesterday we ran a 20 hour day - today looks like its gonna be the same. But our statistics are sky rocketing and it all makes it worth it. Yesterday 150,000 hits were recorded - its humbling and yet invigorating to see that people are actually using what we created! You guys make the juice worth the sqeeze!

We havent eaten much (no time duh!) but these uber kool brownies have kept us going. They were given to us by our lawyer. His wife invited us over for dinner and listened to us crap on about the site for hours. Previously lawyers always were these evil men lurking who either stole your money or your competitiors depending who paid them more - but now - oh my God! these dude and his family are awesome! hats off. If any of you ever want to start a company, take this law firm on board!

We're going to pull another all nighter to prepare ourselves for our new servers and infra structure! The site will go down for an hour or so at 5 am for maintaince. Thats when we will make the shift.
Murti
ps: jaz's gf just got back - ask him abt it. They seem ichy with each other - i hope nothing bad happens

1 Comments:

At 12:41 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey y'all:

I hope those new servers with the Intel Xeon(tm) processors really scream, as they are pretty beefy.

- An anonymous Racker

 

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