Parade of Fail

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry!

Thousands of people wanted to watch the Parade of Sail with our cameras yesterday but only a part of them was able to. Our server ran at 100% server load almost all the time until the evening.

The server logfile shows 5.5 million hits from about 100,000 different IP addresses just yesterday. We sent out more than 240 GB of data in one day. That's the traffic of almost two normal weeks in less than 12 hours.

So, it was more a Parade of Fail than a Parade of Sail for us.

But I am sure... the next Tall Ship Festival we are prepared!

Here are some time-lapse videos from our cams from July 16th. It's not as nice as watching the Parade live but better than nothing ;-)

Chebucto Head Camera will be back soon

Thank you all for your emails regarding the Chebucto Head Lighthouse camera. It seems to be a very popular view.
So, what happened? The router which connects the camera to the internet broke and must be replaced. This will happen begin of next week and we expect to have live images from Chebucto Head by Tuesday or Wednesday. Just in time to watch all the Tall Ships going to arrive soon in Halifax.
Stay tuned for some more exciting news coming up the next few days!