PSU recent downtime report

  • Posted April 24th, 2008 at 10:34 EDT by PSU Staff
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Over the last few months, the number of daily readers on PSU has grown rapidly, leading to an increased load on our servers which slowed down the website. We want to create the fastest and best possible browsing experience for our cherished users, so we scheduled a server upgrade to take place on April 21st.

Unfortunately complications arose, causing an extended period of downtime. We have worked nonstop to get operating at full speed, and I'm pleased to announce we're just about there.

We're extremely sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, and we'll be doing all we can to avoid it happening again in the future. Fortunately now, though, the site should be running a lot faster, meaning you can get all your PlayStation news, reviews and content at much better speed.

We appreciate you're understanding and continued support.

-The PSU Team

 

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  1. TheCh0sen01 | TheChosen01

    • 10:37am BST - April 24th, 2008

    The downtime sucked but if its gonna be overall faster it was worth it!

  2. DarkJ3JB | DarkJ3JB

    • 10:41am BST - April 24th, 2008

    That really did suck but sweet its up and going again.

     

    PSN: DarkJ3JB

  3. Dan_Lero | Dan_Lero

    • 10:43am BST - April 24th, 2008

    Yay :) Thanks for the update

  4. Koloblicin | Koloblicin

    • 10:46am BST - April 24th, 2008

    Wow..... i am glad that that was an update. I thought my firefox was being stupid

     

  5. 1solidsnake | solid1snake67

    • 10:54am BST - April 24th, 2008

    i was worried that psu.com was getting taken down or something. but, it is much faster now to post and to change pages.

  6. woodcock_ps3 | WALL-MARTshinobi

    • 11:13am BST - April 24th, 2008

    that explains y i couldint log in or enter the site on my ps3 browser thanx for the info i thought my ps3 was acting like an xbox

  7. Solrac | Solrac7688

    • 11:38am BST - April 24th, 2008

    I thought my computer and my ps3 browser was buggin but at least they care about their readers and upgraded

  8. Demobot

    • 11:43am BST - April 24th, 2008

    Only if on moved his fast lol. I must admit, ti is still the best Playsation site out there.

  9. vipergts2207 | D-Smitty

    • 12:09pm BST - April 24th, 2008

     The downtime did suck, but hey, it's for the greater good.

  10. DeathByAsh-aman

    • 12:10pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    good. I got sick of askjeeves coming up instead of psu.

  11. nextgenfan

    • 12:14pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    thanky PSU lol

  12. MrAce | mrace

    • 12:15pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    You sound like Konami. Haha

    Seriously though, good for you.

  13. gingo | gingo

    • 12:26pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    psn id: gingo.... glad things are working smoother, its a good sign that the servers are struggling as more people is good

  14. kidkotic2001 | hotshot2001

    • 12:28pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    Cool I thought site was just not up anymore also thought my ps3 was acting like a cr@pbox

  15. AclayPS3

    • 1:16pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    I really didn't like the downtime because I get ALL of my Playstation news on this site ONLY and not being able to get my news from PSU really sucked. I had to go to N4G for my news.

     

    Next time PSU, give all of us a heads up before you schedule downtime so that we at least know what's going on. Post an article like this one whenever you plan downtime. However, I did notice that after I clicked on the link for this article, the page loaded up pretty quickly.

  16. I95SOUTH | I95SOUTH

    • 1:26pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    Dont let it happen again!!! It was like being stuck up at gun point by xcrap 3fixme. lol

    psn id: I95SOUTH <-- Follow the LEADER

  17. killercop | killercop

    • 1:58pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    Growing number of daily readers...

     

    Haha.. Nice one PSU.. Nice one.. ^^

  18. Fiddlesworth

    • 2:12pm BST - April 24th, 2008

     Interest in the PS3 is increasing, big-time.

  19. Ferre

    • 2:16pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    Not a day to early, but im realy hapy now that it is done:) so mush faster!!!

  20. bloodwarg | bloodwarg

    • 2:21pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    im glad it was an update i thought your website had a virus on it or something as it kept asking me to download microsoft something

  21. MercRecon | MercRecon

    • 2:49pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    Don't worry....we still love you PSU!!! lol

  22. ttuna1

    • 2:57pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    its still pretty messed up for me but yeahh

  23. psn_frov | frov

    • 3:17pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    Well things will finally get back to normal and thanks for the bit of info

  24. zombieking36

    • 3:22pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    It was worth the wait, so much less lag it is amazing!

  25. Acid-Hippie2007 | Acid-Hippie2007

    • 4:23pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    Awesome, maybe Psu.com will be as big as any other console related website someday.

  26. El Penetrator

    • 4:29pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    Fock these focking forums and their focking admins, I got banned for posting good news about the PS3 and these focking retards called it "flame-bait" against the 360.. It's called PS3forums u dips$hits!!

  27. DnA19

    • 5:43pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    just happy that you're back up and running PSU. ***P.S running better than before i might add!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  28. PerezStation3 | HYper_MAN456

    • 5:49pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    Ah that explains it. Good new to hear. But I must say that this site is liek SUPER Faster. Like the speed, keep it up psu!

     

  29. naruto007

    • 6:02pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    let the power be with PSU.com

  30. HazdoTT | Tazmyster

    • 6:43pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    well at least its all sorted now thx for the info...PSU

  31. DMobb

    • 6:56pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    Lol i Just kept getting 2.00 Firmware update Topic XD

  32. TRIPLEACE | GODSACE

    • 7:13pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    i thought i was going to die???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!............................................................

  33. mauro125 | mauro125

    • 8:30pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    http://www.ps3forums.com/announcement.php?f=14

  34. RuiyJR | Tseska_922

    • 9:40pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    phew hard days gone hehe :D

  35. Choko

    • 10:17pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    Woa, nice it was just an update, I thought psu was being hacked or something. Anyways, nice update dudes, the pagees load faster adn everythings faster now. Good Work!! Keep it UP!

  36. juicyd | IBJuicyD & (DSI) ATREBLEDIPTRIP

    • 10:44pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    well i kept getting a virus detection n my avast anti-virus every time i loaded the site up, its gone now, but what i pain in the derrier that was. glad t see everything is back up and runnin normally, we love you psu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  37. SkyG22

    • 10:57pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    i still get trojan warnings upon the main page!...whats going on with that?

  38. Alpha2

    • 11:02pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    glad to hear it, I thought you guys were getting assaulted by hackers... especially when that trojan popped up.

  39. Alti | Alti

    • 11:11pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    you know what was the worst part about the down time? When I finally got on, there was nothing worth reading :/// E3 can't come soon enough.

  40. Uncool | Admodistrator

    • 11:45pm BST - April 24th, 2008

    There is still malicious code riddled in here but we are close to bringing it up to standards so please be patient. The staff is far from done analyzing this and the admins are working hard with coders on this.

  41. SkyG22

    • 12:20am BST - April 25th, 2008

    was the site hacked as well as a server change?

  42. Kane | walle

    • 2:27am BST - April 25th, 2008

    It feels faster already.

  43. motzo

    • 2:43am BST - April 25th, 2008

    That didnt explain while during the downtime YOUR SITE WAS HANDING OUT TROJANS

     

    you either dont know or are hiding somthing psu

  44. Lp47PS3 | Lp47

    • 9:43pm BST - April 27th, 2008

    An inconvience, dam rights it was!!!! No jk. Im sure it was for the better.

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