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A Good Problem to Have
A Good Problem to Have
| Name: | Rick Overman |  |
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| Date Posted: | Sep 26, 2006 | |
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So you have probably been wondering where the h*** have the web guys gone? Let me assure you we are still here working harder than ever. In fact, we recently added another person to the team, Jacob Fike, the evil mastermind of the PHP Overlord project manager (which we are using for our web projects).
Sean and Jacob are working on an entirely new indie site to be revealed soon. It rocks -- almost as much as they do! Sorry I cannot say anything else about it right now, soon I promise!
I have been tackling an interesting problem lately -- dealing with all the new traffic generated from our announcement of TorqueX and Torque Game Builder. What a great problem to have! I remember the first time we got Slashdotted 6 years ago, OUCH! These days Slashdot is barely a noticeable bump in the road compared to what we are dealing with on a day to day basis. The interesting problem has been figuring out how to build out our infrastructure to deal with these massive new tidal waves of traffic and not pay an arm and a leg for it and need 3 new IT guys just to manage it. We evaluated a number of options but decided to partner with Akamai. So as of today GarageGames is leveraging 20,000 globally distributed servers in over 1,000 Network Operations Command Centers (NOCCs) in 71 countries to accelerate the delivery of this website and downloads to you!
Nice!
I would really like to hear from all you GarageGamer's overseas -- how does the website "feel" and how fast are the demo downloads for you?
That's it for now, lots more good stuff to come in the days ahead!
--Rick
Sean and Jacob are working on an entirely new indie site to be revealed soon. It rocks -- almost as much as they do! Sorry I cannot say anything else about it right now, soon I promise!
I have been tackling an interesting problem lately -- dealing with all the new traffic generated from our announcement of TorqueX and Torque Game Builder. What a great problem to have! I remember the first time we got Slashdotted 6 years ago, OUCH! These days Slashdot is barely a noticeable bump in the road compared to what we are dealing with on a day to day basis. The interesting problem has been figuring out how to build out our infrastructure to deal with these massive new tidal waves of traffic and not pay an arm and a leg for it and need 3 new IT guys just to manage it. We evaluated a number of options but decided to partner with Akamai. So as of today GarageGames is leveraging 20,000 globally distributed servers in over 1,000 Network Operations Command Centers (NOCCs) in 71 countries to accelerate the delivery of this website and downloads to you!
I would really like to hear from all you GarageGamer's overseas -- how does the website "feel" and how fast are the demo downloads for you?
That's it for now, lots more good stuff to come in the days ahead!
--Rick
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Submit your own resources!| Charlie Malbaurn (Sep 26, 2006 at 22:53 GMT) |
Good luck with everything else. If you have as much freedom as we have had from using them, you will be able to concentrate on other things.
| Canon (Sep 27, 2006 at 02:08 GMT) |
Christophe
| Gustavo Boni (Sep 27, 2006 at 04:22 GMT) |
| Jeremy Alessi (Sep 27, 2006 at 05:11 GMT) |
| Mincetro (Sep 27, 2006 at 09:03 GMT) |
| Mark Currie (Sep 27, 2006 at 09:33 GMT) |
| Rob Sandbach (Sep 27, 2006 at 09:33 GMT) |
| Stefan Lundmark (Sep 27, 2006 at 09:44 GMT) |
Good speed, btw.
| Martin Schultz (Sep 27, 2006 at 10:07 GMT) |
| bank (Sep 27, 2006 at 10:50 GMT) |
| Mathieu Marquis-Bolduc (Sep 27, 2006 at 16:57 GMT) |
| Rick Overman (Sep 27, 2006 at 17:12 GMT) Resource Rating: 5 |
Every page is at least being gzip compressed and delivered via an edgeServer.
ALL images are being delivered from edgeServers.
Several dozen relatively static pages are being completely cached on the edgeServers.
Highly dynamic pages are still being funneled back to our primary server.
Edited on Sep 27, 2006 19:38 GMT
| Phil Carlisle (Sep 28, 2006 at 08:00 GMT) |
| John Rockefeller (Sep 29, 2006 at 01:30 GMT) |
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