All Discussion re: Tesla Motors Website & Forums

[e-fit]

Or they are switching over to temporary rented servers to deal with the expected traffic tomorrow

 

[bonnie]

Not sure why a new thread was started on this ... but if you look at the existing one, you can see that the TM website is down for maintenance for all sorts of reasons, but rarely because of things like you're anticipating.

Tesla Motors Website - Page 46

 

[FredTMC]

I think it's weird that they would take the site off-line in the middle of the day

normally if you have to take the site down at all for maintenance you do it at night

 

[bonnie]

Historically they've taken it down during working hours. Read the existing thread.

 

[CmdrThor]

It appears to be back and large sections of Model X | Tesla Motors are now blank ....

 

[Newscutter]

It appears to be back and large sections of Model X | Tesla Motors are now blank ....

Model S : Features section also missing all text. Videos are still there.

Looks very rookie-blogger now. (from a rookie blogger)

 

[ericspecullaas]

use this site to check Down For Everyone Or Just Me -> Check if your website is down or up? for me its online

 

[Dutchie]

I think you are a bit overzealous. The presentation is only at 7PM Tomorrow. Still more than 27 hours away..

 

[Peter_M]

Large sections of the http://www.teslamotors.com/en_CA/models/features page are blank too - looks like a website issue, not something special about Model X.

 

[wart]

What I'm seeing now is that the Model X page has a lot of blank space, and the Model S Features link is redirecting to the Design Studio.

It's easy enough to tell by using a traceroute that the Tesla Motors Web site is being served via the Akamai Content Delivery Network. The CDN should be able to automatically scale to handle the load spike caused by tomorrow's announcement. Maybe the Web site funkiness is being caused by Tesla's Web administrators tinkering with the expiration times of the objects on the CDN.

I'm not a professional Web administrator but this kind of thing does seem kind of amateurish to me. I mean, obviously Amazon doesn't have to shut down their Web site every time they add a new product. Apple does, but I think that's more of a hype thing than a technical necessity. Seems to me that Tesla ought to be able to do something like set up the new updated Web site on a development/staging environment somewhere, then when they are ready to go live they just flip the DNS entry from the IP of the old site to the new one. Maybe using a CDN makes it more complicated than that. Like I said, I'm not an expert.

 

[Chickenlittle]

Large sections of the http://www.teslamotors.com/en_CA/models/features page are blank too - looks like a website issue, not something special about Model X.

I don't remember the dashboard view of model x. Is that new? The steering wheel buttons appear different from model s

 

[bonnie]

Let me introduce you all to the wayback machine, where you can actually check and see what is different, by date and allllll these questions can be answered. Have fun!

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I don't remember the dashboard view of model x. Is that new? The steering wheel buttons appear different from model s

They've always been different. From the beginning.

 

[wart]

I don't remember the dashboard view of model x. Is that new? The steering wheel buttons appear different from model s

Are you talking about the concept drawing of the Model X dashboard under the heading "This seat is for you?" That's been there for a while. I think it just looks different because it's an artist's conception, not a photo of actual hardware. As of this minute the Model X page looks the same to me as it has for at least the last year. Model S > Features is still redirecting to Model S > Order.

[edit] Ninja'd by Bonnie.

 

[chickensevil]

Site is back to normal, Most likely during whatever "update" they performed the admin messed something up causing the content of those pages to disappear... And now that we have forever highlighted that there was for about an hour or so an issue with the Tesla website, the Administrator won't be able to get off scott free for his mistake... as a fellow admin, I feel his pain right now...

 

[Doug_G]

Now it really is down. Instead of the usual robots it's showing phone numbers for Tesla locations worldwide.

 

[Dchint]

Tesla Website Updating?

Maybe some behind the scenes work happening while everyone is distracted by the Live event?

 

[hockeythug]

Site is back up.

 

[GoBlue88]

Back up. AWD is a $4,000 option. "Tech Package with Autopilot" is $4,250.

Site is real slow. Must be a lot of people in the Design Studio configuring cars to see the new options and prices. :biggrin:

 

[robby]

A little bummed that the interior stuff is now a lighting/headliner/yacht floor/fabric bundle. The lighting would be nice but now to get it I'd have to pay over $2k for stuff I don't care about.

 

[Sad]

Design studio seems down again, just after the blog with more details on Dual Motors and Autopilot was published