Nolan Chart
Home Be a Columnist Logon Columns Survey FAQ Newsletter Contact Print Ads Banners Links

From The Founder's Desk
columnist: Walt Thiessen

Like This Article?
Thumb It!
4 thumbs so far

Topic: About the Chart
Nolan Chart Website Connection Bottlenecks

Our traffic is way up, and it's impacting our website speed and accessibility. This article outlines immediate plans to deal with the problems.
by Walt Thiessen
(libertarian)
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Many of you are now seeing slow response times on the website. This is an unfortunate side effect of our tremendous success. For December we're on track for over 100,000 unique visitors. While the growth is tremendously exciting, we're already maxxing out our current hosting package.

This is why you are sometimes having trouble getting to the website or seeing certain articles or web pages on the website. We're experiencing some huge concurrent connection problems, particularly to the database. And most of the website is driven by the database!

I'm currently (today) researching some upgrade solutions that I'm hoping will address these issues. While I don't have specific news yet on what we're going to do, rest assured that we're going to get this issue squared away. If we find that we'll need to bring the website down for an hour or so in order to transfer it to a new server, we'll put up a web page that explains what is happening and invites you to check back with us in a little while.

Please bear with us as we deal with our growing pains. If we've gotta have growing pains, they might as well be because we're so popular! That's the good side of the story.

Thank you for your support.

Walt Thiessen
webmaster

Did you like this article?
If you did, Thumb It!
4 thumbs so far

©2007 Walt Thiessen, all rights reserved. You must have written permission from the author in order to republish this work.
Published: Sunday, December 16, 2007
Last modified: Sunday, December 16, 2007

The views expressed in this article are those of Walt Thiessen only and do not represent the views of Nolan Chart, LLC or its affiliates. Walt Thiessen is solely responsible for the contents of this article and is not an employee or otherwise affiliated with Nolan Chart, LLC in his/her role as a columnist.

Report violation by Walt Thiessen of Nolan Chart LLC's terms of use policy.


More Articles By Walt Thiessen

Be A Columnist
Tell A Friend About This Article
Leave A Comment

Reader Comments:

Posted By: creator
Date: 2007-12-16 14:58:40

Hang in there, Walt, Thanks! for the site, and God Bless!

Report violation


Posted By: DougPD
Date: 2007-12-16 18:04:59

Anything I can do Walt, let me know.

Report violation


Posted By: me
Date: 2009-07-21 23:30:24

It' alright...I am also a web programmer and I know the problems in managing traffic so I can undrestand it very well. I love to do programming but it didn't worked for me as a paying business and now I am in creditcard buniess and earning well...

Report violation


Posted By: jhon smith
Date: 2009-09-01 03:42:47

These largely are just online tests – fine for a first stab at increased self-understanding washer dryer combo, hopefully, but really no substitute for an expert’s guidance and more fully comprehensive assessments.

Right: How we might envisage 5 of the different \'lines\' of a person’s development (eg cognitive, emotional, aesthetic, dish rack and interpersonal) as they grow up through kitchen islands levels of complexity and competence, taken from

Report violation


Want to comment on this article? Leave your comment here. Your email address is required to track your comment. However, we will neither publish your email address nor distribute it to other organizations or persons. The only reason we might use it would be if we needed to contact you regarding your comment. All comments are subject to our terms of use policy.

Leave A Comment

Your Name:  

Your Email Address*:  

Your Comment: