Market Talk – January 13, 2025
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a negative day today: • NIKKEI 225 closed • Shanghai decreased 7.77 points or -0.25% to 3,160.76 • Hang Seng decreased 190.15 points [...]
Socrates Got a Bit Overwhelmed Today
Well, today was a stellar day no less. We have load-balancer and multiple servers running, 6 to be exact, yet the volume into Socrates today was really over the top. We will clearly have to double the size once again since the site was jammed today. We are also splitting the system into servers in different locations around the world to try to handle traffic like it was today because this is just the beginning.
We apologize and hope your delays were not too bad. We will expand the systems once again and this was well beyond anything we ever imagined.
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