How to NOT launch a webservice with a lot of data traffic
Today I read an article on TechCrunch about the ongoing troubles at “HP Upline”, a service which should be named “HP Downtime” according to the author.
The article features a statement from HP that technical reasons are responsible for the long downtime, so maybe an overwhelming amount of incoming data might have been the reason.
This sounds very funny for me as they should know that such a service attracts a LOT of traffic and needs massive pipes, uplinks, storage and other resources. While we can only dream about the big budgets and hype that they’ve gotten for simply just being a known brand and filthy rich, there was a reason for a private beta.
Its not only because we’re using the “invite model” as a marketing tool. It’s because we try to improve our service by slowly opening up and fixing possible issues and bottlenecks before we launch publicly.
4 months ago