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Zooomr Service Update Video & Notes [UPDATEDx2]

by Kristopher Tate | 28 October 2006 | System Notices, Video Blog | 12 Comments

Hey Folks, almost back — static.zooomr.com will come online first and then shortly after, the main site!

-Kristopher

UPDATE [28-10-2006@11:00PDT]: Static services HAVE JUST BEEN RETURNED! Wow I’m tired! (This means that blog posts that have images hosted on zooomr will now be available.)

UPDATE 2 [28-10-2006@18:57PDT]: The main site will be back online by the end of the day — I’ve been doing some intensive checks for photo data integrity.

12 Comments

  1. fajro said on 28 Oct 2006 at 5:28 am:

    I ♥ Zooomr
    :-D

  2. cmiper said on 28 Oct 2006 at 5:37 am:

    Thanks for the updates…been there and it is no fun. I assure you that when your head finally does hit the pillow, it will be the best sleep you’ve had in a long time. ;-)

  3. stuart said on 28 Oct 2006 at 5:56 am:

    Thanks for the hard work. I love the updates. I am glad it is not me.

  4. stabani said on 28 Oct 2006 at 6:46 am:

    and thats why my zooomr plugin allows caching—gosh, i wish i had actually enabled it! d0h!

  5. Raoul said on 28 Oct 2006 at 7:54 am:

    You go Kris! Anyone who criticizes this downtime has unrealistic expectations. Zooomr is in Beta, which means things like this might happen. It’s not live, and it doesn’t have a small army of developers and network guys tending to it at every moment. It’s been built by one guy, and maintained by one guy, and that’s what’s so amazingly cool about it. One guy was able to do all this, and it’s fantastic!

  6. tim said on 28 Oct 2006 at 9:32 am:

    I’ll second that @Raoul.
    Kris, hang in there, sleep is overrated. :)

  7. Christos said on 28 Oct 2006 at 10:15 am:

    Well done!

  8. Ray Booysen said on 28 Oct 2006 at 10:50 am:

    Fantastic news about static!

  9. 1152736325_8525 said on 28 Oct 2006 at 11:25 am:

    I ran a mission critical data center for over five years, I feel your pain. Dude, you can’t do this alone, get some help, even if it’s just some college interns whom you can train. This trip won’t be your last to your colo facility I can promise you that. I do understand that redundancy is expensive.

    That said I have some suggestions. First and foremost, be honest with your users, let them know whats really going go, eg-our cisco 7500 failed and our vendor can’t replace it for 3 days. Hold your vendors feet to the flames, those guys will walk all over you’re nice to them. Have contingincy plans in your purchase agrements. Reasure your users that their data is safe.

    I would personally like to see a video of your rack space. How about showing off some of those bleeding edge boxen.

    I think you’ve done a good job of keeping us in the loop, can’t do that too much. I really appreciate your dedication and hard work. Like many I’m also very impressed with what you’ve built, so keep at it my friend.

    One last tip, the system administrator’s best friend; coffee.

  10. Alexandru Savu said on 28 Oct 2006 at 1:43 pm:

    Kris keep it up but remember your health is second to none…

  11. yeah said on 28 Oct 2006 at 2:16 pm:

    You rock, Kristopher. Keep it on!

  12. Kristopher Tate said on 28 Oct 2006 at 6:00 pm:

    Coming from you, Yeah, that’s pretty freaking awesome.

    -Kristopher :)

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