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Additional Capacity
So, I haven’t blogged much lately but there is a reason. Over the past month we have been hard at work expanding the infrastructure behind WordPress.com and Akismet. Here are some of the things that we have done over the past month or so: Migrated out of San Diego Brought online almost 100 new servers…
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2007 F1 Races and a Commercial
Toni found this awesome Shell commercial that covers the history of Ferrari F1 cars in 120 seconds. This comes just in time for the 2007 Formula 1 season which began last week with a victory by Kimi Raikkonen in his new Ferrari drive. I will be at the US Formula 1 Grand Prix this year…
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New servers for WordPress.com
We are getting ready to place an order for an additional 37 servers in a new datacenter. This new point of presence will serve as the 3rd active node for WordPress.com. Over the past few weeks, I have been doing lots of testing and seemingly endless negotiation with various hosting companies. Background The model we…
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King of Wii
We had a friendly Wii tennis tourney today. Matt won although I think there may have been some hanging chads involved. As a tribute to his victory, I have included the photo below.