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John Myung Bongo 4

This Sucker is Grinding To A Halt

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If this gets any slower, I'm going on vacation.

It speeds up a bit at night, but man, I'm even timing out now.

Any news from SLO?

the someone better call andy back
Jack
 
Hey Fellas
We are getting KILLED by the Battle. Our unique visitors has gone up almost 5 times over Feb stats. We really don't know how many people are being turned away but it is a lot.

The new Sun servers arrived yesterday. They will help only a little due to a lack of available broadband in our area. Our webservers are in Indio and are on a wireless broadband service. We have absolutely maxed out at 7 gig. On Friday I approved splitting off the battle and having it hosted by a company with tons of broadband in San Bernadino, CA.. It was supposed to go live last night, but their were complications and will be switched over at 10:30 pm California time. The change will take hold for you guys at around midnight pst.

I apologize for the inconvenience but at the same time are really happy that we are able to provide an outlet for people to showcase their music. Last years battle had 4,200 bands sign up in a two month period, this year we already have 3,600 in just two weeks.
 
Thanks for the update, sir!

At least we know our speed is down due to a really great cause.

Hope all goes well with the switchover.
 
Big Poppa,

It's great that you're willing to spend the $$$ for the Battle... that is just awesome... and worth the labor pains.

C'mon, San Ber'dino!

Your email text makes me think that you're a closet computer nerd. :D
 
BP, I posted one of those articles about your undying love for Bill Gates a while back; I could probably find it using the Search funtion but I ain't trying that until the new servers come up.

I might blow something up.

Anyway, I could hear faint cheers reverberating from all over the world as people read the story of Ernie Ball versus Microsoft.
 
Nice work BP.

I'm now thinking about seeing the light & converting myself.

I hate the way they have such a stranglehold on the computer market.
 
BTW - I thought it might be Jack's avatar holding things up...... ;)
 
bovinehost said:
If this gets any slower, I'm going on vacation.

It speeds up a bit at night, but man, I'm even timing out now.

Any news from SLO?

the someone better call andy back
Jack
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It's fast as ever right now (0905 GMT).

Get up earlier. Or stay up later. :)
 
Yep, read this yesterday for the first time.

All credit to you, you're showing the world how it can be done. Rock on!
 
this is weird. the computer at my house doesnt work very well here. it stops and doesnt load pages and takes forever when it does. works fine everywhere else except any ernie ball site. at school though, its a speed demon. i think my computer is broken.
 
skabassist13 said:
this is weird. the computer at my house doesnt work very well here. it stops and doesnt load pages and takes forever when it does. works fine everywhere else except any ernie ball site. at school though, its a speed demon. i think my computer is broken.
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I thought that too last night. Turns out that there was a problem with the site due to excessive hits due to a Battle of the Bands..

It has been absolutely fine for me all day today.

Actually as I am writing this it is starting to slow down a little bit again.
Liam
 
BP I hope you are right. I have been providing ISP services for schools and upgrades in bandwidth and even servers seem to be just a temp. thing before it gets maxed out.

I think you are just too popular. :)

I don't care how long it takes as long as it eventually comes up.

tk
 
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