Visit number affected by Asia cable damage
December 28th, 2006 by Lu Pin
An earthquake in the Pacific could affect Chinese Movie Database’s visit number, and that’s what just has happened. Most of the visitors of Chinese Movie Database come from Asia, while the server of dianying.com is located in the US. An earthquake that struck off Taiwan’s southern coast, although did not claim many lives, damaged the submarine telecommunication cable connecting Asia and US as well as Europe. The authorities of Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Korea all reported interruption of telecommunication and reduced capacity.
So on the pageviews of the Jianti (simplified Chinese) version of Chinese Movie Database was down from 20k to 5k, while the Fanti (Traditional Chinese) version was down to half, from 8k to 4k. The English version, which is used mainly by visitors from outside Asia, was not greatly affected.
It’s said repairing the cable could take weeks, but most of the usage should be back to normal within days. I’m looking forward to that.
The situation has been improved.