Missed My Schedule Happily
By LawrenceI was talking about the release of the Real-Time Bias Reporting tool for a long time.
I always think that we can make it by the end of the 1st quarter of 2014.
Well, we missed it but I am still happy about it.
Consider what happened to DaytradingBias.com website over the past few weeks:
- Bot attacks of our site – it is a worldwide phenomenon, cannot blame ourselves
- Email attacks of our mail server – definitely our fault that our online question and suggestion forms are not protected
- Site stability challenged as its popularity surges – when our site was first created, it was not built with speed and efficiency in mind. It turns out some of the plugins that was chosen when we first created the site are on the avoid list for majority of web hosting companies.
Talking about Murphy’s Law on steroid!
We scrambled to take care of these security loopholes and weaknesses. I recognize that It is extremely important to make sure daytradingbias.com can run smoothly 5/24 since traders will depends on the trading tools we are going to deploy. There were so many things we have to do we have to suspend work on everything else to focus on resolving these issues.
Our effort has now paid off:
- Popular articles is back without slowing down our site at all. We can now track both the current trending ones and the long term ones too.
- Related articles is back with better display and reduced server load
- All known techniques to defend our website are put in place. Several mid-size attacks on the site were fended off without causing any downtime.
It was difficult over the past few weeks to get all these things done.
But isn’t it better to have these issues taken care of before it is too late? I think so.
We can now focus on our regular schedule, finally.
