Over a year ago I signed up for the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) portal newsletter and this morning I received an email notice that the site had gone live with more then one million species pages.
Being curious to see how this interesting and promising EOL portal has matured, I tried to visit the site URL only to receive the following html message page.
It appears that the initial interest in or success of EOL has exceeded their infrastructure capacity.
Perhaps not the best way to make a first impression.
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Update: 02/27/2008
I tried the EOL portal again this morning and they have the following message up.
I’ll check back again later.
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Update: 02/28/2008
Still can’t get the EOL site to load.
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Update: 02/29/2008
The EOL portal site appears to be up this morning!
LOL! May our sites be so successful one day as to tax the bandwidth of our providers! :-)
You would think that with a million species pages they would of scaled up to take several million hits.
Nothing like turning it on and having it crash all in the same day. ;-)
Earl, that’s the beauty of software, you know. Also, all demos and PowerPoint presentations work until you try to show them to your intended audiences! :-)