As announced in our last update, the site will be offline tonight from 22:00 hrs ZMT (GMT +2) to facilitate migration of the site to a scalable platform that would allow us to introduce more services without knocking the site out.
Internet traffic has been on the increase , resulting in poor performance of the site to the point that we had to shut down some services, like popular posts, to just keep the site afloat. We expect this traffic trend to continue its strong upward trajectory going forward because of the presence of more bigger players (Phone Companies especially ) in the ISP space in Zambia. It is just wise that we anticipate this growth in traffic. Broadband access in Zambia is slowly but surely beginning to tick up.
Currently, LT has outgrown the current platform and it high time we did the migration.While hoping to complete the migration by afternoon 12:00hrs ZMT we have instructed the technical team to work flat out and shoot for 06:00hrs ZMT in the morning to minimise the inconvenience this migration will cause to our esteemed online visitors.
Thanks for your understanding and support to Lusakatimes.com. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2011.
LT team
PS: Don’t forget the LT 2010 Awards. Please take part and submit your nominations
No worries, I’ll be at a Xmas party tonite! One Love!!!
There is nothing you are talking about LT. The site is now slow not because of traffic but because you post very unnecessary articles and a lot of photos. So its you causing the problem but want to pretend that it is due to traffic. Stop cheating yourselves and just work hard. Stop stealing other people’s stories and then you will have some credibility. What technical team when you are just working the two of you?
Thanks for informing us.You do are great job and you are very professional.Merry Xmas to you and fellow bloggers.Please Zambians do not drink and drive tonight.We are celebrating the birth of Gods promised Son so lets party sensibly.
I hope MMD has not scared you or bought you off, we know VJ very well
Zikomo LT. Muchite ifya amano
No worries either… after all here in Germany the big celebration is today on Christmas eve and not Christmas day itself.
I just feel for the guys in the technical team. I hope they enjoy Christmas in complete harmony even when they’ll be working flat out to migrate the site. Their efforts are vfery much aprreciated.
Meanwhile, Happy festivities to the entire LT team and to all bloggers!
So far Ba LT you have done well! Congrats, merry xmas and prosperous year new to the team!
Happy Christmass LT…Big Fan!!!
Wont notice the outage,will be out n about
Merry Xmass to all the bloggers
LT, There is no doubt that you have kept us informed, educated and entertained though you need to address a couple of things, Improve on correct spelling, grammar and relevant use of captions.
Thanks LT team and wish you a peaceful and joyous festive season.
Thanx LT.You are doing a wonderful job.I also agree with #9 on spellings(editing).Merry Xmas and prosperous 2011.Monga boza!!