PollDaddy Server Maintenance (Thursday 4th October 2007)

October 2nd, 2007 by Lenny

PollDaddy Blog

diggbutton.jpgThe PollDaddy.com site will be inaccessible for a period of up to 4 hours starting at 11am GMT this Thursday 4th of October. Please accept our apologies for the short notice of this down time. In the past 2 months we have seen a big surge in traffic to the PollDaddy.com site and our current server can no longer handle the demand. We have decided to move forward the upgrading of our servers to this Thursday to avoid any more problems with the site.

Your polls will still remain active throughout the process but you will not be able to log into your account during this time. We expect that up to 20 minutes worth of votes will not be collected from your polls while moving to our new servers but unfortunately this is unavoidable. If you are planning to conduct any important polls over the next few days we would ask you to refrain from doing so until Friday morning.

So what are we doing?

Up to now we have been using the server below to power the PollDaddy.com website and it can no longer supply the capacity that we require.

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(Here are some PollDaddy engineers at work on our current server)

On Thursday we will be moving to 2 new Dell PowerEdge 840 servers with Quad Core 2.13 GHz processors and 4GB of Ram. This should increase our current capacity dramatically.

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(Here is the solution!)

Once again sorry for the short notice of this upgrade and any problems you may have encountered on the site recently. Thank you to all of our users who have stuck with us so far. We have some exciting new features coming soon that will further enhance our current product offering.

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Regards,
The PollDaddy Team.


This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 at 9:47 am.



35 Responses to “PollDaddy Server Maintenance (Thursday 4th October 2007)”

  		1.

    No problems, guys. Your polls are great and I just wanted to say ‘keep up the good work’!
    Posted By: Filip | October 2nd, 2007 2:01 pm



  2. Yes, I agree with the above commenter. Your polls are the best!
    Posted By: Sha | October 2nd, 2007 2:26 pm



  3. Hahahahaha, are you joking all the time, its great !!! ;)

    I ask myself if you need help to translate the poll to other languages, i like polls in spanish and Gallego, if you need my help just ask me ;)

    Regards,
    Posted By: jopicar | October 2nd, 2007 2:46 pm



  4. Good Luck with the move and thanks for the notice.
    Posted By: PlanetPhillip | October 2nd, 2007 3:39 pm



  5. LOL!
    Posted By: Marcus Mac Innes | October 2nd, 2007 4:21 pm



  6. Great job guys sounds great….Can’t wait to see the difference
    Cheerio
    -Melissa E Earle
    Posted By: Melissa E Earle | October 2nd, 2007 4:32 pm



  7. its not bad we can live with it
    Posted By: cotemcandy | October 2nd, 2007 4:33 pm



  8. You are FANTASTIC !!!!!!…………… You are making an Excellent work…
    Posted By: Daniel Cordoba | October 2nd, 2007 4:41 pm



  9. Your polls are AWESOME! A little down time is worth it for all the benefits we get.

    Absolutely love the fire-breathing server! =)
    Posted By: Brandi L Pierce | October 2nd, 2007 5:12 pm



  10. [...] For more information, please read PollDaddy Server Maintenance on the PollDaddy blog. [...]



  11. jajajaja nick photo!!!!
    Posted By: willyboy | October 2nd, 2007 6:01 pm



  12. Are you selling the old franekn-server? I can use an upgrade….
    Posted By: Ben | October 2nd, 2007 6:22 pm



  13. Sure Ben,

    You might want to get a permit from your local fire department first though.
    Posted By: lenehan | October 2nd, 2007 6:37 pm



  14. Thanks for the warning guys….great polls and so easy to use…..good luck with the upgrade
    Posted By: tel | October 2nd, 2007 8:34 pm



  15. haha..thats a funny picture..keep up the exellent work =D..and we can live with it…lol!
    Posted By: Elmira | October 2nd, 2007 8:39 pm



  16. Great l hope polldaddy gonna be better becouse l never could put a polldaddy in my wordpres blog anyway it’s.

    Liren!
    Posted By: Liren | October 2nd, 2007 8:49 pm



  17. Thanks for your poll service. Polldaddy is best and free. I can wait for a month :-)

    And funny photo ;-)

    Posted By: MaFiAMaX | October 2nd, 2007 9:01 pm



  18. ok esta my bueno que este servicio evolucione es muy bueno un saludo y que chido, suerte
    Posted By: elmik | October 3rd, 2007 2:26 am



  19. Great service you guys. I love it and use it frequently. Do your thing, we can wait. It’s worth it. BTW I have all my blogs on wordpress and never had a problem putting a poll on any of them.

    Thanks again.
    Posted By: Patricia A. | October 3rd, 2007 3:14 am



  20. hello
    Posted By: carrie | October 3rd, 2007 6:17 am



  21. Good job!!! cool pic.
    Posted By: Farzan | October 3rd, 2007 9:04 am



  22. No problem dude :-) … thanks for your servcie :-)

    Posted By: xand | October 3rd, 2007 12:53 pm



  23. keep it up guys …great job
    Posted By: blackdevil | October 3rd, 2007 5:37 pm



  24. Dont Worry Guys!!! Polldaddy is The Best…. Good Work
    Posted By: Maximo Espinoza | October 4th, 2007 12:40 am



  25. NICE! YOU ARE GREAT!
    Posted By: APPLE | October 4th, 2007 6:12 am



  26. NICE
    Posted By: APPLE | October 4th, 2007 6:12 am



  27. Good.
    Posted By: Mmahdi | October 4th, 2007 10:27 am



  28. hey!good luck!:D
    Posted By: melapnt | October 4th, 2007 11:06 am



  29. When my site grows up, I want a server just like yours. I think my site host uses the same sort as your old one.
    Nice upgrade. thanks
    Posted By: Craig | October 4th, 2007 11:24 am



  30. Cute pics. ;D
    Posted By: Soup | October 4th, 2007 1:44 pm



  31. Good!!!
    Posted By: leaster | October 5th, 2007 5:25 am



  32. Pimped up servers! Yippie yi Yaaaaay!
    Posted By: Datagear | October 8th, 2007 4:00 pm



  33. Nice work! thanks
    Posted By: Jose | October 10th, 2007 8:50 pm



  34. [...] On Sunday the 5th October at 11am GMT all PollDaddy services will be unavailable for a period of 2 hours (probably less). We will be moving all of our services to a new array of servers in a new data center. This is necessary in order to provide for some of the great new features we will be adding soon. Over the past year we have seen the site grow from strength to strength. We have come a long way from the days when we were dependent of this type of technology. [...]



  35. [...] to time as we have grown in traffic and users. We started out with one server and have gone through various expansions since. PollDaddy.com was originally (and currently is) built on the Microsoft .NET and SQL Server [...]
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