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November 16, 2010

Online Time Clock MTS Database Server Problems Part 3

Some of you may know that last Friday we experienced a shutdown of the Online Time Clock MTS database server that contains all of the account login information due to excessive demand. This prevented people from logging into their accounts. I spent a long day on Friday working through all of the system code and optimized the database access systems as best I could to prevent this sort of thing happening again. This resulted in some pretty significant performance improvements and decreased load on our servers. The second part of this plan was to implement a dedicated server to host the Online Time Clock MTS account data to allow for much greater load and user capacity. This happened overnight on Monday the 16th of November (US Central Time) and as of right now you'll all be using this new server.

This new system has a large growth potential and should see a much more responsive system for all users (it appears to be around 20% faster than the old database system we were using). As always if you notice any problems please contact us and let us know what is happening.

Posted by markn at November 16, 2010 8:51 PM