Wherein we see insanely high portal usage on the first day of school.
Entries Tagged as 'Portal'
Portal Usage Statistics: First Day of School
January 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Portal
What a Difference a Week Makes
August 29th, 2006 · No Comments
It took only a week for portal traffic to settle into it’s normal pattern.
Of course, it’s still quite busy. I expect an average day this semester will only have a high of 800 concurrent users. We’re still hitting just over 1,000.
Tags: Portal
First Day: Heavy Usage
August 21st, 2006 · No Comments
Today was the first day of fall 2006 term and boy is our portal tired! The ramp up to today is interesting, so I will use pretty graphs to illustrate.
Saturday saw a fairly large uptick in traffic, but we barely broke the 400 user barrier. The most interesting thing in the Saturday graph […]
Tags: Portal
Term Upgrade
August 15th, 2006 · No Comments
We have a nice system of “rolling restarts” that allows us to update portal servers without introducing any “real” downtime for users. We introduce a pre-upgraded server to the pool and that server takes on all new sessions. The two server already in the pool don’t get any new users and “drain” as […]
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Getting Back in the Game
June 19th, 2006 · No Comments
It’s been too long since my last IK post. Last week was spent planning the upgrade from uPortal 2.4.2 to 2.5.2 and that took the whole week, although to be fair, a large number of the tasks that got planned also got completed. The week before that I was in Vancouver for the […]
Tags: Conferences · Portal
Portals and Content (Oh, and groups)
May 10th, 2006 · No Comments
Recently I listened in on a webinar (a WebEx presentation + conference call) given by RedDot and UNICON on how they integrated content management (provided by RedDot) with a portal (Academus, provided by UNICON). Besides being a sales pitch for the two products (Why buy one when you could get two at twice the […]
Tags: Portal · Presentations
uPortal Development Blog
March 1st, 2006 · No Comments
We’re running a little experiment over here in MLIB 410. We’ve created a uPortal Development blog as a means for communicating with the uPortal community and anyone else interested, the processes, discoveries, tips, and tricks that we encounter while maintaining our Portal application.
Mooer’s Laws
February 27th, 2006 · No Comments
Reflecting on Pat’s thoughts with regards to the new portal I can’t help but think back to how I perceived the portal design and content decision making process.
Let me give you a hint: 1) in a vacuum and 2) by committee.
We cannot assume people will want our information, even if we know they need our […]
Tags: Information Design · Portal
The Passing of “New”
February 13th, 2006 · No Comments
This morning the portal was finally stripped of it’s New monicker. It also got a fresh new banner. I eagerly await the Chico News & Review article about how the new banner just isn’t the old banner and that the portal just isn’t what it used to be.
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Finals Week
December 13th, 2005 · No Comments
Monday was hoppin’. Tuesday, not so much. This place should be empty by tomorrow.
Although, you might actually be looking for the Finals Week Schedule.
Tags: Portal