bubblegoose's Journal: Our company's cool Santa site

I forgot to mention this one before. Every year my company helps put together the Norad Santa tracking site. The first few years we handled everything, hosting, content, bandwidth. When I first started here they were doing it over a single T1, on a dual PII 300MHz server. The webmaster at the time stayed all Christmas eve to keep the server running.

Officially the site belongs to Norad, and they supply the audio content. Over the years we found other people to handle bandwidth and servers. The last two years it has been AOL. The site will get something like 200 million hits.

This year they have Ringo Starr as an honorary Santa tracker. Unfortunately to see the live content you need to have Real Player, but there is some content for WMP and QT.

Here is the site. Noradsanta.org

dual PII 300MHz server

[spumoni_fettuccini]

Ouch I just retired a single processor Pent II 333 and was thinking how sloooowww this thing was. It's amazing how quickly we get used to better-faster- stronger, eh?

Re:dual PII 300MHz server

[bubblegoose]

Yes it is. I remember how much a powerhouse I thought it was when I started. How it had a whole 512 MB of RAM.