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Ed. note: The transition to our new data center is now complete – Dec 14, 2010. We continue to tune our site and optimize site performance this morning, following our recent cutover to the new Los Angeles data center. Thanks for your patience during the transition. Stay tuned. – Dec 13, 2010

What a big difference, a couple of years makes. Towards the end of 2008, we set up a new data center in Chicago to deal with the ever increasing demand on our infrastructure. Fast forward to 2010 and we have nearly three times as many users using our site to be more productive, in addition to our premium solutions being used by a vast number of Fortune 500 companies and small businesses today.

Dear LinkedIn Users,

Many of you trying to use LinkedIn between 2:18am and 4:08am US Pacific time this morning, and all of you trying to use LinkedIn between 6:10am and 7:43am, were unable to get in.  This is not what we want for our users, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused. Rest assured, all of your postings and messages were sent out.

LinkedIn has grown by leaps and bounds this past year and currently we are adding professionals to our site at the rate of one user per second.

Behind the scenes, there are several  dedicated teams of highly skilled people with (an unusually high tolerance for sleep deprivation), and a varied array of skills in areas such as capacity planning, network and server architecture, and web technology, and these teams are collectively known as the Linkedin Operations organization. All of these skills are continually focused on ensuring that the combination of hardware, software and data stored in our Data Center follows just the right ‘playbook’ to ensure that we offer you, a world class user experience. The primary goal for the LinkedIn Operations organization is for our site and partner applications to be available 24/7.