Now with 2875% More Iron
Ballhype was taken down for about 30 minutes tonight while we moved the site to a new dedicated server. Those of you who have been using the site should see a small performance boost the next time you log in. The move also gives us the ability to support many more concurrent users—a capability that we hope to need for the upcoming public launch.
We actually got quite a bit of mileage out of our $15/month shared hosting plan. Here are a few quick stats on the data that was moved:
- 1434 blogs actively monitored
- 68,868 blog posts downloaded and analyzed
- 8,926 stories posted
- 8,637 players, teams, and other sports entities entered
- 1,407 game picks submitted
And, despite the preponderance of basketball bloggers participating in the beta, the most popular story on the old server was Baseball America’s Top 100 2007 Prospects. Everyone likes a list.