tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post2120031151071231740..comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: Details Behind the Failed 1940 Census LaunchThe Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-89583361094864220862012-04-04T08:52:05.842-06:002012-04-04T08:52:05.842-06:00Dear Asparagirl,
I am not part of Ancestry.com no...Dear Asparagirl,<br /><br />I am not part of Ancestry.com nor do I represent them. My opinions are my own. <br /><br />When you say that "we all know that Ancestry.com really wanted..." I must confess I did not know. Actually, I doubted they had bid on the contract, so your information is news to me.<br /><br />Might I inquire what your source is for that news?<br /><br />--The InsiderThe Ancestry Insiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-54877832667430118512012-04-03T20:22:40.420-06:002012-04-03T20:22:40.420-06:00The NARA census website is working well now (Tuesd...The NARA census website is working well now (Tuesday night, Pacific time), and my Twitter and Facebook friends have been reporting greatly improved site response starting mid-day, so it seems like they got things under control.<br /><br />They were hit with probably 4x their estimated traffic yesterday (it was 3.5x the estimate before 6 PM, so it was probably 4x or more by midnight), and then those massive numbers *increased* today, Tuesday, because of all the press attention. There's only so fast anyone can reasonably scale up with those kinds of numbers of visitors, and with such "heavy" (big high-res images) data.<br /><br />(Kind of reminds me of the Ellis Island database launch many years ago...remember how slow that was for *months*?)<br /><br />So yeah, maybe you could cool it a bit with the "ZOMG EPIC FAIL!" stuff. We all know that Ancestry.com really wanted to win the 1940 Census contract over Archives.com, and yet they didn't, so you certainly wouldn't want your readers accusing you guys of "sour grapes" now, right?Asparagirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07251238650076131241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-23028077956250121412012-04-03T14:46:38.879-06:002012-04-03T14:46:38.879-06:00At 1000 EDT this morning I was able to download a ...At 1000 EDT this morning I was able to download a 221MB .zip file of Enumeration District 82-25 in Wayne County, Michigan. It started out at a bit over 3.0 MB/sec and finished up just over 2 MB/sec, so I would say a very impressive performance. The .zip archive contained 52 images and I found my father-in-law and his siblings an parents on about the 20th image I looked at.<br /><br />Scrolling through them on my Macintosh once they'd all downloaded was certainly easier than trying to view them in succession on any website.<br /><br />So it's not all bad :-)<br /><br />RogertheKiwihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08032776673542923740noreply@blogger.com