The quadcam

The trusty old quad cam, bane of all things surfline. Originally created to allow us to quickly check our camera status, it was released in an unfinished state to the world. It has a number of problems (notably a huge memory leak in the flash code - we think) that causes it to freeze or crash browsers. A new version is slated to be released sometime in the next few months.

Can we come out to play now?

After what seems like days (because it was days) in a freezing, noisy data center we finally think the issues with the site have been resolved, a combination of hardware re-wiring, some software changes and tuning of our application servers seems to show a website thats more responsive, more stable, and, if i dare say it, considerably faster than pre-move. Now what we need is some surf. (HB this morning - 1-2 glassy and fair)

Provisioning quickly... adding resources for Premium Members

"We're not outta the woods yet..."

We've added new dual duo core blades and are provisioning them as quickly as we can to service our premium users. Premiums come first -- so hopefully by Monday we'll have dedicated systems running for our core users.

We're in for a long weekend... so we're refueling the forces with coffee and heading back into the data center. Bring on the crash carts...

Hang in there everyone -- we have reinforcements across the board and are working non-stop through the weekend.