Oh, just the usual duct tape and toasters :) This is definitely a site that's gotten way more popularity and attention that we ever anticipated. Thanks again for stopping by!

I've been looking for an excuse to use http://www.twilio.com/ for a while now. How about instead of text messages I have twilio call you and tell you about the shark situation in its creepy robot text-to-speech voice?

The site is currently running in Rackspace's datacenter in Chicago. The beautiful thing about the cloud is if there's more traffic than usual you can just spin up more server instances. Not to say the site is designed for any kind of scale, but fortunately the site data is fairly static, so I can fake scalability with some ugly rsyncs :)

Hi Ovidius, Sysadmin here for http://sharks-ocearch.verite.com./ I'm so sorry for the congestion. I've brought some extra capacity online just for you, and the site is becoming responsive again. If you could just let me know how many friends you'll be bringing to site that would be great ;)

I love you guys. I'm spinning up extra capacity for sharks-ocearch.verite.com as we speak. So sorry for the slowness. Thanks for stopping by!