Just a quick note. Over the last two days this site has been down off and on due to CPU/Bandwidth over-usage. We host this blog on a 3rd party server because, for the most part, it’s just easier. CNET has it’s own blog platform that’s built to handle a ton of traffic, but wasn’t the easiest place to be able to hack together quick code examples and demos. Given that all we needed was a wordpress install and some customized wiki software (for the tutorials), it just didn’t make sense to try and make it work on our enterprise servers.

We discovered today what we think the culprit was – some deep links to some of our images that were sapping our resources – and have that sorted out. Hopefully we won’t encounter any more outages. Thanks for your patience.

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