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Seems Google’s new service is struggling to hold up against the massed onslaught generated by a mention in Matt Cutts’ blog, SlashDot and many others. Currently I’m struggling to get the administration panels to even load, which is unusual for Google, who’s massive bandwidth and good programming result in web applications that are usually very fast, even for those of us doomed to the slow international bandwidth down here in southern Africa.

Then I guess most of it wasn’t created by Google; but by a company who, since they were charging $199 a month, didn’t have to worry too much about a massive influx of new users. Given that this uses so much flash, I’m not really surprised; hopefully they manage to get some sort of load balancing into action soon.

Update:Well it’s now 20 hours since I added the stats code and still no stats to look at. Though it seems they have managed to do some load balancing (or just found more powerful servers), since at least I can now look at my lack of stats quickly. Ah Google, suckcess can be a pain. I’m sure this will turn out to be a brilliant service, but right now it’s just managing to be a useless one.

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