There was a giant CPU spike yesterday when generatedata.com was linked to on reddit, causing servers to melt, kittens to die, etc. etc. I’ve moved the script over to a dedicated host with about 5x the resources, so the site is already loading a loading a lot snappier. But this is just a temporary fix: I need to properly scale it out and work on improving the efficiency of the code – something I’ve meant to do for a while.

I’ll cut back on my birding this weekend and start now. :)

I’m really sorry for the inconvenience, but generatedata.com is currently offline. There was a giant spike in the CPU today and my hosting company felt they had to take it down. I’m moving the site to a dedicated server and will hopefully have it back up shortly.

Apologies!

I’ve been continually under the weather the last couple of weeks so didn’t manage to get much work done. Boo. But today I just released a maintenance release for generatedata.com. The new release contains a number of bug fixes.

Website: http://www.generatedata.com
Code: https://github.com/benkeen/generatedata
Documentation: http://benkeen.github.io/generatedata/
Bug fixes in this release: https://github.com/benkeen/generatedata/issues?milestone=12&page=1&state=closed

This should have been done a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve very busy, got sick, and then had to go on a business trip. But better late than never!

The highlights of 0.1.3 are that the jQuery dependency has been dropped (yay) and a new small segment grouping option has been added. You can find the script online at d3pie.org and the code on github. Enjoy!

In anticipation of moving formtools.org over to a new host, I’m trying out Digital Ocean with one of my smaller scripts: d3pie.org.

This morning I set up a “droplet” (virtual server) and configured it with node and nginx. In theory, it should run a lot faster for d3pie.org, which is completely client-side and can thus benefit from nginx more than Apache. I *am* running it on a VS with very low memory (512MB) so I guess we’ll see how it goes. This is very much an experiment.

I’ve just updated the DNS so now we play the waiting game. What could go wrong, right?