I'm often asked this question so I'm going to save my fingers and answer you all at once. Outages come in two flavors expected and unexpected... Expected outages:These happen typically once a week or every other week where the service is unavailable for about 10 minutes. During these outages we put in place new server side code which either adds new functionality for Paltalk or fixes some outstanding bugs. We also will take some physical computers we use as servers out of use and replace them with more current hardware. We try very hard to keep these outages as short...
View the full post »Paltalk will be offline for approximately 2 hours on Friday 13th June @ 01:30 hours EST (GMT -5), we are upgrading our database system to improve performance for the profiles and groups web sites.. this is a perfect chance to get that early(ish) night you have been promising yourself ;) - Pete (paltalk)...
View the full post »Paltalk has come along way since its birth in late 1998 when we had 2 servers and 3 staff members. We have been growing steadily every year and the stats are pretty amazing, so we wanted to share some of them with you.... Every Minute on Paltalk... 15 Million Video Frames are viewed....SMILE! Every day on Paltalk... 20 Terabytes of data pass thru our servers -- that's 20,480 gigabytes, or 20,971,520 MB (approx 6,990,506 MP3 files) or 214,748,364 KB...or 6 cans of cold beer, 2 Ducks and a damp iPod...Ok, I made that last one up :).200,000 pals are...
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