Important Announcement - Server Upgrade
Friday, August 18th, 2006Update: We have postponed the server upgrade until further notice. We hope to re-schedule it as soon as possible and will post a new maintenance window when it becomes available.
In an effort to improve the performance, speed, and reliability of our site and to support our growing community of listeners, we will be upgrading our server environment this weekend. A maintenance window has been scheduled for Sunday, August 27th between 12am and 12pm EST. During this time, the JapanesePod101.com site will be available intermittently. We will do our best to minimize any disruptions or downtime.
Please accept our apologies in advance for this inconvenience. Thank you for all your support.
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
Eran
JapanesePod101.com
support@japanesepod101.com
Posted by JapanesePod101.com in General Announcements |
August 18th, 2006 at 3:50 am
Eran-san,
Good luck with all that — hope it works ou 
Thank you! I thought maybe it was my computer that made the site come in more slowly than usual.
August 18th, 2006 at 4:07 am
Eran-san,
Server upgrades are wonderful! It is nice to have more and more listeners visit the website. I noticed JapanesePod101.com was down about an hour ago. Thanks to you and your team for working hard to keep up with the ever-increasing user load.
Ganbatte Kudasai.
Daniel
August 18th, 2006 at 6:38 am
Mina-san,
I would like to express my sincere apologies again for the brief downtime and overall site sluggishness earlier today and in the last few days. I cannot thank you guys enough for your support and commitment as we fight through these growing pains.
I have just released a new mechanism which caches our feeds and significantly reduces the load on our server by utilizing far less CPU cycles. I am crossing my fingers that this tweak will dramatically improve stability and provide a major performance boost until we carry out the server upgrade this weekend.
Please let me know if you are seeing improved performance and faster response times.
Thanks,
Eran
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:03 am
Doumo Arigatou, Eran-san!
I’m a newcomer to this amazing website and i just want to thank you for such a great service.
jyaa ne,
rei
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:40 am
I am not sure whether it is my computer but the site is starting to shw all thisjavascript above the logo and login form at the start page and other pages. When I logged in the japanese pod 101 logo had been duplicated so many times to fit in the script. What is hapening? :???::???::mad
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:44 am
Paul-san,
We are debugging some code on the server. We should have this problem resolved in just a few minutes. I am deeply sorry for the inconvenience.
Thank you for your patience!
Eran
August 23rd, 2006 at 10:49 am
Ah, that’s better. ありがとうございますエルーアンさん!! :grin
August 26th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Great article in Newsweek. I’ve been in Japan for 3 years, studying Japanese on-and-off for 3 years. I bought an iPod 2 weeks ago and fuond your podcasts a few days ago. I started from Beginner 1, and although easy, find useful expressions in the most basic lessons. Your lessons are useful, entertaining, and I really appreciate what you’re doing. Thank you very much to all involved. You guys rock!