Server Down Time
John
January 17, 2008 at 10:07 AM posted in General DiscussionWe need to transfer some data to a new server tomorrow, Friday, January 18th at 2pm Shanghai time (+0800). ChinesePod will be down for 2-3 hours.
Sorry for the disruption, but the site should be faster overall after the upgrade.
John
January 18, 2008 at 09:20 AM
It happened. Apparently some users may not have even noticed it.
Painless enough? :)
artkho
January 18, 2008 at 05:53 AM
I have to wait even longer to listen to this week's Dear Amber show?
AuntySue
January 18, 2008 at 03:42 AM
So long as there's no pesky users logged in trying to do stuff while it's happening (hmph! what do they think this is anyway?), everything should go fine! :-)
Thanks for the sensible decision, and the notice.
If the forum will still be up(?), it'd be nice to have a note there too.
Sounds like a good day for relaxed practice copying hanzi sentences from PDFs, while listening to the lesson on repeat.
RJ
January 18, 2008 at 03:00 AM
Thanks John. I am just giving you a hard time. Im sure everything will be ok, but how do you say I have my fingers crossed? Do they say such a thing in Chinese?
John
January 18, 2008 at 02:21 AM
RJBerki,
Should be: 我很害怕
Don't worry... there are no icebergs involved this time, and no changes to the service itself. We're just trying to better balance the server load.
rsmith91
January 17, 2008 at 07:40 PM
Yes................................................................ I've always thought the site needed speeding up a bit.
kimiik
January 17, 2008 at 02:36 PM
Yes.......................................................................................................................................
kimiik
January 19, 2008 at 08:42 PMI don't know if it's related but the chinesPod website is way too slow this evening.
Between today and yesterday, I would say it's approx 10 times slower.