eReader server ‘crushed’ by iPhone’s popularity
iPhone fans have suffered activation hassles. Meanwhile the demand for the iPhone has overwhelmed Fictionwise, home of the eReader format, one of whose owners, Steve Pendergrast, wrote on an e-mail list tonight:
"As many of you probably know, the ereader.com server is absolutely getting crushed right now as thousands of iPhone users try to download their past purchases all at once. We’re working to try to tune this better over the weekend, but the fact is, our infrastructure just can’t handle everyone trying to download every book they ever purchased in the past ten years all on the same day!
"We ask for your patience. The initial crush will die down hopefully in a day or two, and we’ll try to offload some of the traffic to other servers as quickly as possible.
"I would ask that people not hit the ‘DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING’ button for the time being. Just download a few titles you want to read now and hold off doing mass downloads until maybe middle of this coming week."
Good luck with the problem, Steve. The bright side is that the iPhone version of eReader is finding fans. Here’s to an eReader app in the future that can handle ePub as well!
July 13th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Yeah, I saw that too. Are FW and eR on the same servers?
July 13th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Same company. Not sure about the servers. - David