Congratulations to Laura J from Los Angeles, California.  Laura is the winner of a $250 gift card for Amazon.com in our random draw held today for all our members who gave us a chance so early on.

Thank you to everyone else who joined Commuto and trade friendly.

Stephen

Early this morning Daily Candy wrote a wonderful mention of Commuto.com in their Los Angeles edition. This was the epitome of a good day gone wrong. We started off flying, with everyone here very excited about the prospects of what’s about to happen today. We knew there was a chance of some technical difficulties, but we managed to allocate all the servers resources to Commuto and were hoping that any issues that occur would be minor and short lived. Boy were we wrong. Daily Candy is a monster. They brought so much traffic that we managed to crash our severs several times throughout the day, and whenever we were operating we were doing so very slowly.

We will be upgrading our servers on Thursday night and will be able to deal with all future traffic. I just wanted to apologize to all the users and visitors who had to deal with the crashes and slow loading today. Its been a fantastically stressful day and I feel terrible for all those who ever affected. I hope you give us another chance, and I promise that your experience from here on will be much improved.

I can’t say I wasn’t warned. My sister has a site which had gotten a mention on Daily Candy in February and her site had crashed the same day as well. So yes, I knew what was about to happen, and yes, I under estimated it. My mistake. It won’t happen again.

Thanks again and trade friendly.

Stephen