If you’re a regular at Techcrunch you have probably been wondering why the site has been so slow lately. With the growing number of readers we’ve been having, the site has been getting massive ammounts of traffic and the server we were on wasn’t enough to hold everybody. So, in order to better serve you, we just changed servers and are now feeling much better.
The new machine is a Quad Xeon with enough ram to hold everybody and their friends in, and hosted at Dreamhost (affiliate link – click here if you want to visit dreamhost without using our affiliate code) that are really good with keeping their clients informed of the status of things. Plus, they’re super friendly and have a blog in order to be transparent with their clients.
So anyway, this isn’t major news. If you’re seeing this news post you’re now looking at the new server and that means you’ll be much better served from now on when it comes to browsing Techcrunch. If you have any problems with the page thought, feel free to email us and let us know. Thank you.
Fred,
Talking about transparency, shouldn’t you put [affiliate link] after that link to dreamhost? It’s OK to put affiliate links in, but I think people should know what they’re clicking on.
Anyway, it’s good to know you’ll be running faster from now on. Keep up the great work!
Hey Pete,
You are right. I apologize for putting it up and not writing that in. I’ve changed the story text. The reason why I didn’t mention it wasn’t any sort of bad faith, though. It doesn’t make a difference to the end-user, and it helps with TechCrunch’s hosting.
Still, thanks. It’s always good to stay conscious and eat our own dogfood, so I can’t talk about transparency without mentioning that the link would eventually help out TC. Won’t happen again
Guys,
What about the promised changes to the font size? It’s a matter of increaseing one number in the CSS. Common, I’m sure you can do it today.
M.
Hi Fred,
That’s cool – there’s nothing wrong with trying to cover your hosting costs. Thanks for the quick response, and keep on blogging!