Hank Horkoff posted about an important issue at the Praxis blog during the holiday - namely the question of server reliability. As you know there have been some, er, slight problems due, amongst other things, to ever-growing traffic. The message:fear not, help is on the way in the form of a new server environment.
Ken Carroll
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In addtion, we will provide a separate audio file that will only contain the core dialog without the explanations and host banter.
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非常感谢! Thank you thank you thank you! I’ve been waiting many moons for this.
Access is getting slower every day.
These last two days, I couldn’t even use www.chinepod.com, because it is too slow (at this very moment, it keeps loading but the page requested doesn’t appear)
During the night, here in China, www.chinepod.com is not even accessible. Support wrote to me the reason is that the traffic in the US is huge.
@Nicolas:
Yesterday, March 1st, 8 pm UTC: no access to CP, CP forums, CP blogs for several hours.
Commenting to lessons: Impossible for me - nearly always caught by this spam filter.
This seems to be no good basis for selling premium accounts…
yeah I can’t post to Lessons either. Though my access to CP has been fine if a bit slow though my feed reader downloading has had some problems. I think my problem with the spam filter is they may be using one of the many block lists that are out there. China being the land of the infected SPAM-bot (Thanks Microsoft for making it impossible for illegal copies to download your updates) means that a lot of the dynamic IP ranges the ISP here use are blocked some of the more aggressive lists just block Chinese ISP’s completely. At the moment I keep getting white-listed but that is only good for one or 2 posts. *sigh* just letting my frustration out because a few of my posts have gone missing completely. Though I will say Eileen and Colleen have been very helpful pulling my posts back out. When I get around to visiting my friends in 上海 I’ll have to by them a drink or three.
ANTS - in my pants. I’m antsy to go to lunch but have been waiting for my Cpod downloads to finish. The advanced mp3 is taking twice as long as the regular show which took over 20 minutes. I’ve been comparing it to downloads with iTunes which seem even slower. On some days it’s better, more on the order of 10 minutes.
Do you think the new hosting environment will help those of us in China?
Lantian:
Downloading the Advanced Show was unusally slow for me, too, today.
It took almost a minute. Just tested. Now it is back to the usual 30 seconds