~misfit~ wrote:

Derek Lyons wrote:

[...]

And how were they supposed to have prepared?  Nobody has ever run a
project of quite this nature before (I.E. virtually everyone having a
large cache), and they are limited in the availability of hardware.

They designed the software, they have a history of server outages, even you
could have anticipated that most people would opt for a large cache as the
option was available.

[...]


And this project is still new and very _big_. All the interactions between users, servers and the multiple lumps of software asynchronously bolted together are way beyond full detailed comprehension by any one person. Throw in a few hardware problems, database limitations and attacks, and... You get some 'very interesting times'.

If this lot was easy, it would already have been done long ago.

As it is, we're seeing some good and fast developments. Well worth a bit of user bitching.


Happy crunchin',
Martin