Iron Man Brought Our Servers Down

Apologies today for any website inconveniences, but our load balancing was not quite balancing the way we anticipated. Most sites within the network were affected for a few hours this morning, which meant some sites were down, slow or barfed on some video playback. The good news is issue was fixed asap so people could continue to read and watch videos about “Iron Man Suit Becoming A Reality” – a big hitter today and some interesting stuff I might add. An enews ran out this am with the story and contributed to our tech issues and I consider a good problem to have as we continue to scale.

“Raytheon’s second-generation exoskeleton (XOS 2), essentially a wearable robotics suit, was unveiled for the first time recently during an event at the company’s Salt Lake City research facility. XOS 2 is lighter, stronger and faster than its predecessor, yet it uses 50 percent less power, and its new design makes it more resistant…” More  here with video & slide show>>