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The Extraordinary Jaguar Speedster
This stunning motor car has captured the imagination of the world's motoring press and has appeared on Top Gear and in newspapers and magazines the world over.
This was pure fun to work on - and we're really pleased with the outcome which highlights the superb photography of James Lipman. We also got to spend a couple of days in the Summer of 2011 driving E-Types for the Top Gear 50th Anniversary celebration of the E-Type, which was a real 'once in a lifetime' experience.
Look out for the Speedster on both the new Top Gear DVD and Jeremy Clarkson's new offering as well.
The Top Gear Effect
All hands on deck...
It's always fun to keep an eye on your servers when you are going to be on telly. The massive traffic spike happened during transmission and then kept rising until we hit close to 10,000 visitors in a couple of hours.
The site is deployed on Cycle so we handled the traffic with ease, even with the massive quantity of concurrent sessions.
Because we had also put James Lipman's extraordinary photography of the car on the website at high resolution for download by magazines, newspapers and the interested public, our Amazon S3 account took some very serious traffic as well, with hundreds of Gigabytes downloaded in only a few hours.
This effect was repeated across the Eagle site as well.
A brilliant testing bed for Cycle under massive load - it barely even registered.