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Zooomr Downtime 26-10-2006 PSA (With Video!)

by Kristopher Tate | 27 October 2006 | Announcements, System Notices, Video Blog | 16 Comments

A quick update — some of our hardware died and since stores are finally open here in the states, I bought and replaced much of the problem earlier in the day. As of right now, I’m restoring from where we left off!

We’ve still got quite a bit of files to transfer and the like, so please bear with us. :)

With love,

-Kristopher

16 Comments

  1. Cody Mays said on 27 Oct 2006 at 4:37 pm:

    That’s what they call tired.

    ~Cody
    www.threadbound.com

  2. Justin King said on 27 Oct 2006 at 4:57 pm:

    These things happen with technology, but it’s great that yourself and Thomas are so upfront about it and don’t try to hide what the issues are.

    Good luck and see you on the flipside.

  3. jpghouse said on 27 Oct 2006 at 5:47 pm:

    Thanks for keeping us up to speed on things Kristopher.

  4. Raoul said on 27 Oct 2006 at 6:31 pm:

    Kris, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you. Get some sleep, man, you look beat! I’ll wait a few more hours, no sweat. Seriously, hit the sack for a few hours!

  5. ping said on 27 Oct 2006 at 8:28 pm:

    I just went through a major hardware failure on a server at work myself. It was a hellish 48-hour marathon getting everything back online.

    I hope everything gets better soon. Good luck!

  6. Kristopher Tate said on 27 Oct 2006 at 9:26 pm:

    Everyone, thanks for your kind words — things are coming along over here — I’m hoping to bring the service back online by later tonight (PDT, GMT-7)

    Ping, that does sound hellish, and in fact much like what I’m going through! Good-times. ;)

    -Kristopher

  7. Ray Booysen said on 27 Oct 2006 at 10:25 pm:

    Hi Kristopher.

    Keep it up! Thanks for all the hard work.

  8. ping said on 27 Oct 2006 at 11:47 pm:

    Yeah, it was a 2-disk failure on a RAID5 configuration. Always fun. ;)

  9. yanz said on 28 Oct 2006 at 12:13 am:

    Kris, I appreciate your sleepless hard work. You’re a rock and got a strong sense of responsiblity.
    You can take a break whenever your body needs it.
    Good luck. A Bed is waiting for you.

  10. Sankar Anand said on 28 Oct 2006 at 12:35 am:

    Hey kris,

    waiting for zooomr to be up… please make it ASAP

  11. gareth thomas said on 28 Oct 2006 at 1:10 am:

    So I take it you have co-located hardware…that sucks when stuff like this occurs.

    Fingers crossed on the other side of the atlantic for ya!

  12. gem said on 28 Oct 2006 at 1:16 am:

    you should take a long, long nap afterwards. =)

  13. Taavi said on 28 Oct 2006 at 2:31 am:

    Oh, man, you look really tired. What DID die? I mean, did any photos or other data of users get lost or something like that?

  14. Marti said on 28 Oct 2006 at 3:14 am:

    Thanks for your hard work!! We’re keeping fingers & toes crossed for you :) No need to say sorry - this shit happens, sadly enough. Thanks for keeping us posted and good luck with all the replacing and restoring!

  15. Mark Probst said on 28 Oct 2006 at 4:21 am:

    Good luck and sleep tight when everything’s done! :-)

  16. site said on 19 Jan 2008 at 8:43 pm:

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