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Show Downloads are at a crawl and servers are melting!

I just checked my latest Libsyn Stats and downloads are through the roof. I am getting reports that sites like Dawn and Drew are down, servers have melted all over the podcasting sphere. Thus far this site which is hosted on a GoDaddy server has kept up and we have seen over 300,000 individual hits to this site alone today.

I know that at least 6500 people on iTunes have downloaded the newest show so this is significant traffic. Be patient with the downloads as servers are getting hammered worldwide.

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Comments (4)

MissM [TypeKey Profile Page]:

My guess on the server slam is cause of the new ipodder lemon (version 2.1), for windows, anyway. It tried to download the last 4 months worth on one minute tips.
My guess is the auto cleanup, if you set it for a few feeds ( WHY, oh WHY isn't it in the general properties????) then it downloads EVERYTHING that you are subscribed to?? Boy is it MESSED up.
I DO like the show notes are now available if you right click a download! That's very cool.

Ian [TypeKey Profile Page]:

Which feed is causing the problem?

Please open a problem report at Lemon support.

ipodder.sourceforge.net/support

MissM [TypeKey Profile Page]:

OMT, One minute Tips, I'm reporting the issue, ty :)

Which could also be why LibSyn is now offering the bittorrent downloads as well.

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