by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Anyone who’s ever dealt with a traffic spike from their dating or social network being Slashdotted (or having an extraordinary marketing team) might find this of interest. Brad at LiveJournal did presentation a few years ago called “Holy hell that’s...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Markus links to a video of Myspace CTO talking about how they pay billg a lot of money to run the site on ASP.NET. When they had 65 million users, 250 servers were used to just serve up the homepage! The performance gains cannot be denied, but still, I think most of...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Several times a week people ask me to recommend which dating site software or platform is “the best.” Being that I am not a developer, I point people to the Tools area as a good starting point and let them come to their own conclusion, hopefully with a...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Sysadmins and those in the know, what is wrong with this picture? % dig myspace.com … ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;myspace.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: myspace.com. 85833 IN A 216.178.32.50 myspace.com. 85833 IN A 216.178.32.51 myspace.com. 85833 IN A 127.0.0.1...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Site Technology
Cisco, maker of fine routing and networking appliances, has unveiled a $300,000, six screen high definition videoconferencing system. Except they call it telepresence because everyone’s heads are life-size. I spend at least an hour a day videoconferencing in...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups
CTO’s IT Managers and CFO’s may want to take a look at Media Temple’s new Grid Server. I use Media Temple myself for my personal blog and am happy with the experience, after having 7+ hosts over the last 10 years it’s nice to see hosts begin to...