Pre-alpha Server test results in success

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We'll be bringing the stream live soon.  Sorry about the wait but we blew a fuse - literally.

Video Streaming Alpha test. Next Alpha Test - Sunday, Mar. 1 @ 4PM ET

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As you've probably noticed, this evening we went live with a new design for the overall site.  Huge thanks to Tom Shebest in the Hostmysite.com Marketing department for putting together a design that is lightyears ahead of our old one.

Along with this new design, we've added a stream on the home page which will be live when the bike is racing and for our friends from Code Project, the ability to get the web service documentation as a PDF.

We've been using a hardware load balancer and two physical web servers for about a week now. Previously we were running from a single web server with the database server running directly on there. Now, however we're on multiple virtual machines powered by VMWare.

Your request for this page goes something like this:

1. www.theworldsfastestserver.com resolves to our load balancer VM running HAProxy which determines which web server is on-line and ready to accept your request.
2. HAProxy then forwards your request onto the chosen web server (currently only 2 but if we need it we can quickly deploy additional web servers).
3. The web server handling your request makes any database queries to yet another virtual machine (again, we can add additional servers to handle database requests as well)