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Traffic and lots of it…
We are very happy everyone is logging in to evaluate submissions for Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition, but our technical resources are a bit unmatched for this kind of traffic. If you are trying to evaluate and finding that images slow to load, hang tight. We are working on the problem and should have more news soon. You can login at any time during the evaluation period to finish up, so you don’t have to evaluate everything in one sitting.
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Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
April 1st, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Ah ha! The tables have turned! (context here)
Actually, what I mean to say: congratulations on your success! I can’t wait to pick your brain about this exhibition and the process. Hope your servers get some breathing room and nothing too bad breaks…
April 1st, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Switching the images onto Amazon’s S3 hosting service now, which should help a bunch.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Maybe all us museum folks should pool resources for some redundant humanities server farm. OK, I know this doesn’t really make much technical sense. But it’s fun thinking about all our data rubbing shoulders. Good luck with the scaling. Please post about your experience with S3.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:32 am
Hi Bryan,
We just got our first bill from Amazon - a whopping $12.48 for more web traffic than we could imagine. This is a seriously great, affordable option if you’ve got major traffic hitting you and you need to do something fast. On that note, we recommend setting up an account and getting all of this in line before problems hit (they only charge you .01 per month if you don’t use it). We had done this months prior and it meant we could fix our bandwidth problem in a few hours because the account was there and ready to go.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I viewed some of the photos and all of them were good and some very good. But I do not find the commentary helpful in evaluating them. Art either resonates or it doesn’t.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Hi Ann,
Thanks so much for taking time to evaluate - we appreciate it. In the feedback I’ve gotten so far, people seem to go either way on this, which is kind of interesting. Some evaluators like having the context when they are outside of Brooklyn, others don’t want to read artist statements at all
Once the eval period is over, I’m going to blog about how much influence is contained in these statements - hopefully it will be an interesting discussion.