September 28, 2007
The countdown to Future of Web Apps (FoWA) is well and truly underway.
The new website is done, the literature has been designed, the preparation for the talks has been, err, nevermind 
We are all really looking forward to next week though, we finally get to show off what we’ve spent the last 3 years working on, and we also get to catch up with everyone else from the uk web scene as well (especially considering we’ve been invited to the BlogNation launch party the night before, free bar’s are always interesting…) .
Please do drop by and see us at our stand (we’re next to Microsoft!), or feel free to grab one of our lot as they are wandering around (they will all be wearing XCalibre t-shirts).
We will be showing off a demo of our service during the event, so come along and see what you think!
Tony.
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September 28, 2007
After all the recent fun we’ve had helping CheddarVision out, I shouldn’t really have been surprised by an e-mail I got recently.
It was from Jim @ Isotope Communications, the people advising CheddarVision, and his first words were ‘we are in a bit of a pickle’. (Hence the title).
They are working with what appears to be the next big viral hit, Big Udder, the Cow Version of Big Brother (some would say that was the last series that was on TV, but I digress…..). It’s already been featured by the BBC, The Times, The Mirror, Channel 4 & Metro at the time of writing. Unsurprisingly, their traffic was going through the roof, and they needed us to come to the rescue again.
So far the traffic has peaked at over 20 megabits a second, more than enough to kill the average hosted site, but FlexiScale has handled it without a second thought.
I should also thank the people from West County FarmHouse Cheesemakers, for the amazing cheese they sent us this week as a thankyou for CheddarVision, everyone enjoyed it a lot.
Tony.
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Posted by flexiscale
September 28, 2007
Here’s a really interesting question posted in our forum about Minimum CPU Level. I felt that it needed a thorough answer, so you can read both of them here. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by flexiscale
September 21, 2007
On 17 September 2007 we got a panic call from the owners of Cheddarvision, a favourite on Myspace and YouTube. This web site is normally fairly quiet - after all, watching cheese mature isn’t exactly exciting, as nothing happens for months at a time. But on 19 September they were due to taste test the cheese and the guys were very worried that there would be so much excitement from fans that the site would fall over from the extra traffic, so they wanted an affordable hosting solution that would cope with whatever happened. Time to move them onto FlexiScale. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by flexiscale
September 20, 2007
Sometimes you’ve got to step outside your comfort zone in the cause of business development, so I reluctantly donned black tie for the CBI dinner on 6 September.
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September 20, 2007
Tuesday 4 September - my day as a mentor at Seedcamp did not get off to a good start. Up at 4.30am, plane to London City was late, total traffic chaos because of the Tube strike and my taxi didn’t show up on time, then took the scenic route to Imperial College … whatever happened to the famous ‘Knowledge’???
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