They buckled down, stayed up late, and got the servers going.

I helped, but that’s really it. I helped, I wasn’t in the lead on this.

I mean, I went to bed last night. The guy who really DID this, didn’t.

It is WAY better. I had to give up altogether, too often. Not anymore!

those 500 errors were getting annoying but I’m sure it’s gone for now. Neil, I wonder what they went to in terms of new hardware, was a new Sun Solaris system powered by the new Six Core Opterons?

After all, look at his progeny: Dave_in_Fla, Dave_in_ATL, Dave_in_MI to name a few.

My apologies to any of the second generation of Daves who I left out.

I guess there comes a time when we all have to move on. You lose one Dave & two more sprout up to take his place…

Seriously, thanks to Erick, Neil, the Eagle IT guys and whoever else was instrumental in recognizing the necessity of this change & effecting it in a timely way.

Just imagine if all this new traffic showed up on RS 3.0.

The difference is amazing!

First time in a few weeks I’ve been able to get on the site at this time of day and have it be so fast to load! From what I can tell so far it’s all working great! Let’s see what happens now when Rush mentions us again. That’ll be the real test!.

As I mentioned yesterday now would be a good time to hit the contribute button. Bandwidth costs money, as do high capacity servers as well as the maintenance thereof. Neil, you may have went to bed last night but I know there are times that you haven’t. Caleb wrote a piece a few days ago called Support Independent Conservative Journalism where a couple of links to donate to Neil can be found.

As far as DaveinBoca is concerned, well, some folks just don’t understand the internet. When you start out small and your traffic gets big temporary problems can occur. You guys just didn’t sit back and hope the site hits didn’t fall back to “normal”, you rolled up your sleeves and got to work to keep this level of traffic as the new “normal”. But such moves, especially to a 5 server system from a single box take time to prepare for and get it right. Neil dropped a few hints over the past few days that such a move was in the works, I guess Dave didn’t have the patience to wait for all that to come to fruition. Tsk, tsk. Personal attacks? Really? What a child!

Again, kudos to all involved, and RedState rocks!

The upgrade is a result of our deep-pocketed insurance company backers and Rush Limbaugh’s own money to keep the angry mobs riled up (heck, let’s throw in “Big Oil” and “Big Tobacco” as well. Gotta keep the puppet masters happy, donchya know?). If not for them, just like the poor kids at DailyKos, we’d still be limping along on a 486 desktop with a gerbil in a wheel providing CPU power

Great big thank you to *all* the great folks who keep RedState running. You guys do an outstanding job. I’ve got a ton of feeds in my Google(tm) Reader, but time constraints mean that I only get to read a handful. RedState is the only one I make sure gets read regularly.

Seriously, thanks guys!

Maybe planned outages can be communicated in advance. For outages in my support operations I communicate well in advance and frequently enough. We (myself and my Team) send out an update once the activity is complete.

While 500 errors are frustrating regular users should be informed. Not that I support spamming…. We could have people opt in for maintenance updates.

Speaking of Neil, what ever happened to his HTML for dummies link/instructions? Ever since you guys went to 2.0, I haven’t been able to figure out how to include proper links or pics in my postings.

As for the 500 errors, nothing tests Redstate’s server like Drudge linking to it so we shall see what the future brings.

This stuff is boring and besides that I am telling the Solaris guys:-).

All kidding aside though, some of the past issues were very frustrating and can drive readers away. I won’t speak for Dave, but it sounds like his intent was well-meaning. Let’s hope the future is brighter for all you Unixee-techie types.

All this from a guy who runs/has run products which are financial backbones on Tandem and AS/400 (ahem, i-series):-). I guess that makes me an old timer.

Here’s a Reuters article about it. I don’t see any mention of State Farm in there, but Geico and Progressive are mentioned:

NEW YORK (Nielsen Business Media) – Some of the nation’s biggest advertisers are distancing themselves from Fox News host Glenn Beck after he called President Obama a racist during a July 28 broadcast.

Geico has pulled its ads from Fox News Channel’s “The Glenn Beck Program.” Lawyers.com, which is owned by LexisNexis, also has vowed not to advertise during the program, according to Color of Change, an African-American online political organization that has been urging advertisers to stop supporting the show.

Additionally, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance and SC Johnson all said their ad placements during the broadcast were made in error and that they would correct the mistake.

Yes, I experienced the outages as well. The errors, the server down messages or whatever. But I took it for what is was: a heckuva lot more people were now trying to access the site and the existing servers couldn’t handle it. But that wasn’t just a good thing, that was great thing because it meant that thousands more people were tuning in to hear and see the truth about Government Rationed Health Care, Cap and Tax, etc. DaveinBoca is a pantload. Good riddance.

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Government doing something efficiently is akin to the following little gem of a video…

BTW, I am still finding a few bugs with the site update, of course with the infinite bandwidth of a cable modem late at night, I can not tell a difference from a few days ago.

Then again it could be that IE 8 bites.

What’s up with the anti-insurance industry/free market ad at the top?