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NukezillaStatus.com Just Got a Little Bit Sexier

Before we moved to our shiny new server we had a fair amount of server disruption. Because of this, I built a very basic monitoring site called NukezillaStatus.com you could visit to see what servers were bust.

It performed valiantly and perfectly, and it’s just had an upgrade.

Previously, all the servers it monitored would be pinged one at a time before it showed you the results. This was fine, unless all the servers went down at once. If this happened, NukezillaStatus would patiently wait for 30 seconds on each server before showing you the results. This meant that in the worse-case scenario, the time when you really need NukezillaStatus to be on form, it would take nearly two minutes to load the results.

Now, the results are dynamically loaded in parallel, solving the blocking problem and making it load at least three times as fast as before. It also means if all the servers are down you won’t faced with a blank page for two minutes.