Since memcached version 1.4.3, the item deletion function (Memcache::delete()) in the PECL memcache package fails with an error similar to "CLIENT_ERROR bad command line format. Usage: delete [noreply]" due to a feature removal in memcache 1.4.0 and above. Details about this feature removal and the problems it caused have been published by the memcached team.

The memcached team have recently released version 1.4.4, adding backwards compatibility support for clients such as the PECL memcache extension and rectifying this issue, but for those of you who would like to patch the PECL extension directly, I'm putting a patched version of beta 3.0.4 up for download over at GoSquared Labs.

This is a simple fix which uncomments the code in memcache_ascii_protocol.c and memcache_binary_protocol.c that pertains to the "linger time" of the deleted item. However, simply upgrading to version 1.4.4 of memcached should rectify the PECL extension problem anyway.

We feel we owe you an explanation and apology for the downtime of GoSquared yesterday (11th November.)

Note: Some techy stuff right here so if you're not too bothered about the ins and outs of domain name servers you may not care too much for this article.
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Today we're pleased to introduce the LiveStats Widget - the easiest way to share the number of people on your Site with everyone.

With this update to LiveStats we've also added a pane to get your GSTC (GoSquared Tracking Code) easily without having to email us and ask for it. Access the pane by clicking on the LiveStats Monitor - the area in the centre of the toolbar that shows you the total number of people on your Site. For help with any of the new features of LiveStats, and all the ones that already exist, check out GoSquared Support.

We also fixed an issue where Sites with a .info domain could not be added to LiveStats. Sorry about that.

We've worked on more performance improvements and we'll be letting more Sites in very soon. Those of you still waiting for your Sites to be enabled won't have to wait much longer we promise.

Wanna see what the LiveStats Widget looks like? Look no further:

What a week.

On Tuesday* last week, we finally released LiveStats into the wild - our web app for monitoring your Site's traffic in real-time.

Everything went exactly to plan until Thursday when our good friends at Smashing Magazine decided to tweet about us and the just launched LiveStats. We were really hoping to grow our user base after launch, but could never have imagined the response we would get from that one tweet - in under 10 minutes we received over 1,000 new visitors and in that hour almost 400 sign-ups.

400 signups to our blog wouldn't be too much of an issue, but those new 400 people wanted to add their Site to GoSquared and check out LiveStats for themselves. We thought we were prepared for increased load when we launched LiveStats, but we just didn't expect so many Sites, and so many Sites with such high traffic levels joining in such a short period of time.

Let's not forget that a substantial number of our 400-or-so new users also had more than one Site. You get the message - we were swamped.

There was no way we were going to let any of our lovely new members down, so we went about implementing an extremely long, and still growing, list of performance & reliability improvements:

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