Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York start-up’s website

Re:Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York st... by cherylyeoh on Monday March 21, 2011 @09:36PM (#2352591)

Josh is awesome! He has almost 3000 vouchers from across the US and loves that our map function maps it all out for him, categorizes it and sorts by expiration. ~Cheryl Yeoh (Founder of CityPockets)

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Re:Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York st... by ffumarola on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:20PM (#2352702)

What about the import caused the site to crash?

Is it a repeatable problem?

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Re:Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York st... by asnyder on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:23PM (#2352716)

It's probably related to Google Maps and their geo-code limitations. You can only query about 2500 in a 24hr period, and even then you can't do bursts without being blocked for a 24hr period. What you should do is query in intervals, store the resulting geo-code information in your database, then use that information rather constantly query Google's geo-coding services.

I'm not privy to any information, but this is likely what happens as we had to advise some of our users that were having a similar issue with Google Maps.

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Re:Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York st... by ffumarola on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:57PM (#2352848)

Good info, thanks for the thorough response.

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