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Site Loading Slowly/Bourne Identity End Credit Sequence
I just started a new job and I’m having issues accessing the site from my mac. It takes a very long time to load. Any ideas on how to expedite the process?
Also, I was rewatching the Bourne movies the other day and I’ve always really enjoyed the end credit sequences. I was trying to come up with ideas for how they could be done in after effects. Any ideas?
As always, keep up the great work, and thanks again!
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While it’s probably not what they used for the Bourne movies, you can achieve a very similar look with Trapcode 3D Stroke. Check out the Style tutorial here : https://www.trapcode.com/download.html
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[Caleb Armstrong] “I just started a new job and I’m having issues accessing the site from my mac. It takes a very long time to load. Any ideas on how to expedite the process?”
Are you talking about this site? Or the site at your new job?
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Remember: Burt Bacharach lied. What the world really needs now is an undo button.
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Sorry about that, Ron. I’m having trouble accessing the Cow from work. It loads really slowly on the Macbook that they got me, as well as the G5 that I’m editing on. Not a deal killer or anything, I’ll wait for the cow for as long as it takes. 😀
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Thanks for the feedback, Caleb. It is appreciated.
We have been working to resolve some issues here that is causing slowdowns. The tutorials section is now successfully load-balanced and we are now supporting this week 300% to 400% more concurrent connections downloading the articles than we could support a week or two ago.
The COW has nearly tripled in traffic from where we were on August 14, 2007. The growth in the last year has been staggering. We have had to triple the number of servers that feed this site and have had to even buy a hardware load-balancing system, as well as double the throughput pipe we had last August. Last August we had the capacity of 128 T-1s working concurrently, as of a month ago, we doubled that to the power of 256 T-1s working concurrently. Coupled to the load-balancer, these changes make for a LOT more connections that we can now successfully resolve, over what was possible before.
Unfortunately, we are learning this one step at a time and we are using the Summer months (here in North America) to work things out while the traffic is low.
We thought. ;o)
Yesterday, according to Google Analytics, we had a huge traffic day — over 48,900 totally unique users logging in during a single 24 hour period. And that doesn’t count the re-visits. Considering that the tutorials take the brunt of the traffic and are each weighing in at around a minimum of 10MBs or so — with some that range up to 80MBs and more — it really taxes the servers. Get hundreds or thousands of these connections happening concurrently, and you can see it takes a lot to drive Bessie’s bright orange smile here in the COW.
Last week, we isolated another area of the infrastructure that needs some beefing up (sorry, I couldn’t pass that up!) and so we ordered another huge quad Opteron server to assist in that area of our site. It should be here in a few days and will allow us to begin load balancing that area of the infrastructure and get traffic back to cooking again. We’ll be adding a couple more servers shortly after that, so in the end, we will be back to a near-instant access again.
We appreciate your patience and understanding and thanks for the kind words, they too are always appreciated.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Remember: Burt Bacharach lied. What the world really needs now is an undo button.
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