While for some people Friday the 13th is bad luck, we’re fortunate enough to be in Spain where Tuesday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky, and probably for this reason the last upgrade has gone quite smoothly. There were a few moments of downtime as the servers restarted, but nothing to worry about. Nonetheless, apologies if you didn’t manage to get your Planetaki hit when you wanted it.
There are quite a few little changes and fixes in this release and a major change to help us send out notifications which we’ll be trying out very soon. For the curious techy people, we’re now running Rails 2.1 to take advantage of some of its cool features.
One of the smaller fixes comes after a complaint from the guys at unvlog.com, where the videos from their blogs were not coming up properly in Planetaki. That should be working okay now, but please guys, no more Abba videos, and no, I don’t care if they sing in Spanish, its just not good for you ;-)
Today Planetaki suffered from a couple hours of downtime as we struggled to implement a few database optimisations. Planetaki has been progressively getting slower these last few weeks and days and reached an unbearable point today as some users where provided a 404 error due to a queue of requests building up. Sorry for any inconvencience! On the upside, its a sure sign the service is getting more popular!
The performance enhancments are now in place and planets are now loading quite a bit faster. I also discovered a fairly significant bug where old posts where not being deleted correctly; this is now corrected, but will take some time to remove all the old entries, so we should see performance gradually improve even more.
Let us know if you have any problems, and stay tuned for some more major updates in the next few days!
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