A few weeks ago we emailed all Admins of 1.0 and 2.0 sites about a change we planned to make that would redirect visits to www.myfamily.com to the new 2.0 site. Our intent was to make 2.0 available to brand new visitors to myfamily.com, not to disrupt 1.0 members flow.
We spent a lot of time [...]
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Before I start filling you in on the migration story, let me say hello to all of the MyFamily.com v1.0 customers out there that are reading this. I’m Dave Quick, a member of the MyFamily.com team hard at work on the MyFamily.com v2.0 Beta site.
A significant amount of my time has recently been dedicated to [...]
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It has been quite a week, but we’re back and better than ever. Here’s a quick, non-technical synopsis of what happened:
Sunday: We invited a bunch of Ancestry.com members to try out 2.0. A lot of those members came to sign up and check it out. Our servers took a beating, and the site began to [...]
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Small UPDATE to the “Sloooow site.” post.
We’ve figured out some of the causes of and fixes to the slow, sluggish or simply unresponsive site we’ve had since Sunday. It is partly due to the dramatic increase in users, and also due to the way we’ve coded certain parts of the site.
Today we made numerous changes, [...]
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As many of you have noted, the site is running very slowly. We are working to resolve the issues as quickly as we can. I’ll post an update with more details as soon as I have more information.
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When you upload photos to our beta site, we save them to our storage servers, then we generate and save a couple smaller sizes suitable to display on the website (these are referred to as screen-res or thumbails or thumbs). This is pretty typical of most websites that provide photo sharing features. But thanks to [...]
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