It’s been a long while since my last post – to long. There are several reasons for this. One of them is that there were few issues to report: for the most part everything kept working reasonably well in November and December. Only in the past few weeks some performance issues started popping up again.

The current problem with performance mainly lies into finding out how to properly balance new uploads between the two servers used to serve the more than 3 million files that have been uploaded so far. Right now the server to which files are being uploaded to is hardcoded. I’ve got some ideas about how to have the scripts make the choice between servers more intelligently.

Unfortunately I don’t have the opportunity to make major changes to the scripts in the past few weeks. It’s not that I don’t have the time – I got lots actually, but I recently moved and my broadband connection is yet to be reconnected. This makes doing any kind of development frustrating for me.

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