On my 27th day, you would expect that everything works out fine on the technical end of this project. It did not.
This website was designed and launched and I had a good friend work on a nifty behind-the-screens administration tool, a back door to this website, that I could enter all over the world to upload photos and add and edit reports, besides peeking in the incoming invitations from all over the world.
This was never designed for the many visitors the website received, by international media attention, nor by being mentioned on the radio – and then get thousands of people enter the website address at the same time. Overheated servers at my hosting provider, database requests that simply timed-out; you know.
This project became an ongoing project for people behind the screens too. How to handle thát much server attention?
I had written a full on report about
– handing over the Gift from Maud and Sam from the French town of Saint Ouen
– getting a haircut by my host Paul
– being a passenger on a bus where the driver doesn’t know its way
– end up drinking a few beers at Pauls friends’ house
– about staying with Paul for today (and another night)
This story was written and then totally deleted when my database refused to save the whole thing. Regards from 2001, folks 🙂
