Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
May 4, 2017
Hectic day here at SMU as our server was down (actually the entire server farm) for a couple of hours right at our peak publishing time. You may have noticed our website either moving very slow or not being able to access the site at all between 4 PM ET and 6 PM. Everything is fine now and we are actually seeing our load times being faster than they were earlier today.
Behind the scenes Steel Market Update continues to make investments to benefit our members. We are updating the software that is the platform for our website. That has mostly been done and the biggest change you might notice is the faster and smoother uploads. We are also have a new mobile platform developed to improve and upgrade your ability to read our newsletter and access our website on your smart phone. We expect this to be completed within the next month and we will advise once it is ready to roll.
We are also investing in people and we hope to have some announcements in that regarding in the coming weeks.
Don’t forget that the Chicago Metals Industry is hosting their Boy Scout Dinner in Chicago on Thursday, May 18th. I am in the process of looking at my schedule to see if I can be there this year.
Short one tonight due to the issues we had with the server farm…
As always, your business is truly appreciated by all of us here at Steel Market Update.
John Packard, Publisher
John Packard
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