Monday afternoon downtime 3 years ago

Are you sensing a theme here?  That’s right.  We’re hating life again.

One thing that would really help us right now is if folks would just login to Twitter and then refresh your page a few times.  Really fast.  Not.

We’re seeing slowness again this afternoon that we’ve traced back to our ineptitude at running a “major” Internet service.  I put “major” in quotes there because when you look at the numbers, we really don’t have that many users.  Its like 1.5 million maybe.  So we should qualify that original statement; we’re seeing slowness again this afternoon that we’ve traced back to our ineptitude in running an Internet service.

Now, while we’re busy posting these status messages we could be working on our golf game, filing our (stupidly late) taxes or even fixing Twitter.  But nooooooooo.  You people have to have updates.  Constant updates.  If only someone would build a service that would notify you and your friends quickly via the web, mobile, etc when things are happening.  Now that would be awesome.

Update: 1:46pm - headed down to the data center and we pressed the “Turbo” button on all of the servers.  Hoping that solves this afternoons slowness.