Comments on: Just how well did Engadget do last Tuesday?

By: Manu Sharma

Manu Sharma — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:44:13 +0000

I think Gizmodo did far worse. There was big confusion initially since everyone expected them to update the same page with minute by minute reporting but what they did was break up the keynote into several individual posts. So I (and I think several other readers like me) moved to Engadget when someone in the comments mentioned that you guys have a much better coverage.

By: Ryan Block

Ryan Block — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:38:24 +0000

Yeah Brian, good game, great week! You guys still stood up to the beating, not many sites can say that. I’ll see you soon!

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:59:08 +0000

10 million pageviews, it’s really amazing.
Congratulations, Ryan!

By: futurekarma » 100% Uptime Indeed

futurekarma » 100% Uptime Indeed — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:13:21 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Ryan Block from Engadget says that their site did not go down. Congrats to them for withstanding that much traffic! [...]

By: Brian Lam

Brian Lam — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:00:16 +0000

Hey Ryan, good post. Very honest, per usual. To answer your question, we didn’t go down, but the multi post format sucked in this case for the live blog. For lack of sleep, we forgot about usability. Duh — we would update a single post, with timestamps, and then jump to another when we felt the subject deserved a headline. Impossible to follow, really. A big mistake, but that’s the difference between my 6 months of experience in this game, and you and Pete, as vets. Live and Learn.

Fantastic week for both sites, though, that’s for certain.

Cheers,

P.S. Holy F*ck, OVER 10 million? Maaaan.

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By: Joel Johnson

Joel Johnson — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:34:06 +0000

I am not a Gawker employee, but as a reader who was refreshing Gizmodo during the keynote, they appeared to stay up for most of the time. There was a blip about half-way through, but nothing compared to the “oh fuck, we’re down for a couple of hours” of the past. (It was less than a couple of minutes by my single-browser-refreshing estimation.)

The upshot of all of this is that it seems like all the big blog networks are finally getting their shit together, performance-wise. Good on Engadget for holding up under that blast of traffic. That’s no minor accomplishment.

By: Ryan Block

Ryan Block — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:19:17 +0000

We don’t have any dedicated servers. Our cluster serves all of the Weblogs, Inc. network, TMZ, and the other AOL properties which use Blogsmith (our platform). I don’t know exactly, but I don’t think it’s more than 50.

By: Ronald Lewis

Ronald Lewis — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:16:26 +0000

It’s always a good thing to read things direct from the horses mouth — err, blog.

By: Ryan Wagner

Ryan Wagner — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:56:22 +0000

Out of curiosity how many servers do you guys have? If you only hit 20-25% load on the iPhone day I assume you have quite a few.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:41:16 +0000

That was definitely an interesting read.. and I wasn’t even aware Engadget until that day as well.