We're currently upgrading parts of our website. This should not affect your experience, but please accept our apologies if you do encounter any issues.
]]>For a few hours this afternoon, the server that relays requests to the content server on the Digital Strategy website had such a massive volume of requests, it thought it was experiencing a denial of service attack. This didn’t affect any of the online learning resources, or the other websites we run, but it did prove to be one of the most taxing challenges the network engineers had seen.
]]> Thanks to the fast footwork of the IT teams at our web hosts, as well as some great detective work by Mark, Richard, and Ben, the site was only unobtainable for a couple of hours, but on behalf of all of our team, my apologies if you were unable to reach some of the editorial content that was affected during the period.We do help young companies by offering a live environment for testing, and if you do notice anything odd with our sites then ping an email to TheTeam@DigitalStrategyConsulting.com and we'll look at it straight away. You'll also go into the draw for the next champion award for bright ideas.
Many thanks
Danny Meadows-Klue
Chief Executive
Digital Strategy Consulting
In the next few weeks we are upgrading many parts of the website so on the off chance you might notice some missing pages or links that do not work.
If you find a link that doesn't work after you have tried it a couple of times - do let us know! Email: BugBusters @ Digital
]]>Our web analytics and data tracking tools are remotely managed by a team developing a new model for website service delivery. It's an experimental project and we're a development partner for a pioneering young technology firm. But pioneering isn't without risk.
]]> Rather than all of the content, tagging and activity taking place inside the site itself (and within the page structures and CMS), it's delivered on the fly through a proxy server. The process is genuine technical R&D, experimental, and like much that is pioneering, it isn't without risk.Thanks to Craig and Matt on the IT team, we've discovered that our ISP (part of the BT group in the UK) has been restricting our bandwidth, causing slow migration of files.Our bandwidth for office connectivity should give us more than 8megs, but tests today revealed less than 1meg. The fault seems to have resolved itself now but we are monitoring it and interested whether other companies have had a similar experience with BT.
Many thanks
Danny Meadows-Klue
Chief Executive
Digital Strategy Consulting
Today the Digital Strategy project workspaces have been unavailable due to a DNS problem that was rectified in the early afternoon. The problem lasted for two hours and only two customers were significantly affected.
]]> If you do notice anything odd with our sites then ping an email to TheTeam@DigitalStrategyConsulting.com and we'll look at it straight away. You'll also go into the draw for the next champion award for bright ideas.