MySites – status of January

MySites speed should be back to normal now!

As I explained earlier, MySites has been getting considerably more traffic lately.

Many people have been asking me why the site has been so slow. The reason is that we weren't ready to grow so fast.

We didn't expect things to grow at that rate., and no matter the effort, traffic grew faster. Sorry about this.

We took the decision to slow down most of our Chinese traffic, so that our Western users get the same experience as before.

The last post I did about this was on January 10th. Here is what it looks like until January 31st.

Lessons learned:

- You always think "it's a good problem to have", until your users can't get to the page and you're not delivering them the service they expect.

- Internet growth can be unpredictably fast.