Hello,
About Occasional Web Site Outages
We're aware! There has been some lingering network-reliability problems with Blur Busters. If you visited Blur Busters and our web servers did not respond -- apologies! We're aware of the random/intermittent outages.
Some of our sites such as TestUFO are now fully covered by a Content Distribution Network (CDN) like all the big guys -- and now handle practically tens of thousands of simultaneous visitors thanks to previous upgrades -- the problems have been unrelated to that.
Server Upgrade Coming
We are currently researching a different, new dedicated hosting service that may provide more Enterprise-quality reliability for the Blur Busters sites.
Keep tuned in these exciting times in the refresh rate race to retina refresh rates!
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Re: *** Investigating New dedicated hosting service
Update: Server has been upgraded and I got a 3-month billing credit (unusually large)
We are still 50%-50% about transferring the web hosting service.
Currently, Blur Busters now can handle thousands of TestUFO visitors simultaneously, and server is less than 10% utilized, and CloudFlare CDN is currently enabled. In theory, no server downtimes should occur even with the biggest media-coverage surges but I need to trust our web hosting service to step up to the plate.
For now, the (re-)upgraded server is stable -- and am now monitoring if this will stay stable going forward.
If you work in the industry, and have recommendations/suggestions of a hosting service -- would love to hear from you by DM or email squad [at] blurbusters.com -- I require real-world credentials to the hosting service of existing major sites.
We are still 50%-50% about transferring the web hosting service.
Currently, Blur Busters now can handle thousands of TestUFO visitors simultaneously, and server is less than 10% utilized, and CloudFlare CDN is currently enabled. In theory, no server downtimes should occur even with the biggest media-coverage surges but I need to trust our web hosting service to step up to the plate.
For now, the (re-)upgraded server is stable -- and am now monitoring if this will stay stable going forward.
If you work in the industry, and have recommendations/suggestions of a hosting service -- would love to hear from you by DM or email squad [at] blurbusters.com -- I require real-world credentials to the hosting service of existing major sites.
Head of Blur Busters - BlurBusters.com | TestUFO.com | Follow @BlurBusters on Twitter
Forum Rules wrote: 1. Rule #1: Be Nice. This is published forum rule #1. Even To Newbies & People You Disagree With!
2. Please report rule violations If you see a post that violates forum rules, then report the post.
3. ALWAYS respect indie testers here. See how indies are bootstrapping Blur Busters research!