…and yet we’re apologising!
Those of you for whom no day is complete without a visit to the hallowed halls of Demolition News Towers might recall that we suffered a 12-hour outage earlier this year due to excessive traffic volumes.
At that time, we upgraded our servers, met the wage demands of the Internet elves and were assured that our website and the server upon which it resides were “good for 2,000 to 2,500 visits per day”. Based on the fact that we’re now averaging 35,000 visits per calendar month, that was plenty of bandwidth. Or so we thought.
And then yesterday happened.
Strategically timed to coincide with the office being empty, you lot (yes, you, you and your insatiable appetite for demolition stuff of every hue) arrived in your droves, pushing traffic levels over 1,000 views per HOUR on at least two separate occasions and effectively breaking our Interwebs.
Unless this was some secret conspiracy set in motion by the industry Illuminati to take us down, it appears that we have once again been victims of our own success.
Our team of experts (no, seriously) is beavering away behind the scenes as we speak, attempting to replace the gaffer tape and string that generally holds this sorry mess together.
Hopefully, our disappearance didn’t cause you too much inconvenience. But please accept our sincere apologies anyway.
