Site Overload

Published by Clark Kant, Editor In Chief

New visitor hits and reader comments are combining to slow down the site.  We cannot keep up moderating our many comments.  Please be patient and bear with us as we work to upgrade our system!  We have never before seen such huge visitor and comment traffic!

Our technical staff believes we can complete the needed upgrades to our system by Friday of this coming week.  Hopefully we can keep things patched together and avoid a website crash during the next five days!

We thank you for your patience and understanding!

Clark Kant
Editor In Chief
HermannHearsay.blogspot.com

Readership Exploding After Mention In CountyNewsLIVE.com

Published by Clark Kant, Editor In Chief

On the heels of a very much appreciated favorable mention in the Entertainment Section of the well-known local daily news site CountyNewsLIVE.com, we are finding that the number of hits and the readership on our small website has been increasing by leaps and bounds.  If our website is taken down by this unanticipated explosion in readership, please be patient with us.

Though this sudden increase in traffic is causing us "growing pains" and exposing some infrastructure problems, we nevertheless thank Jeff Noedel over at CountyNewsLIVE.com on 5th Street for mentioning us in his January 23rd article.

I will be sending Jimmy Oldsun into St. Louis tomorrow to see if he can pick up some additional used servers at a good (read cheap) price.  Our owner, Mr. Tiger, is a penny-pincher, and he won't allow us to call in IBM or Hewlett-Packard to install new equipment.  We will do the best that we can under the circumstances.

Clark Kant
Editor In Chief
HermannHearsay.blogspot.com