System Notices Category Archives

Routine Maintenance

5 December 2006 | System Notices | 9 Comments

Hey folks — I’m bringing Zooomr down for 30 minutes or so to update some code I’ve been working on and to update some server settings.
Thanks,
-Kristopher
UPDATE (1:17a PT): All Services Nominal and Maintained

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Upload Limits Reset for December; Let’s End This Year Right!

1 December 2006 | Announcements, General, System Notices | 36 Comments

Hey friends, I’ve just reset our monthly upload limit for December, but I wanted to ask a favour from everyone:
Let’s do this thing right!
Everyone, I thank you. To everyone who posts, uploads, comments and interacts — thank you from the bottom of my heart.
This year has been an insightful & emotional one. So please, let’s […]

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Zooomr is Going Down for About an Hour [BACK ONLINE!]

31 October 2006 | General, System Notices | 5 Comments

9:26a.m., Updated, ok, that went faster than expected, thankfully, we are back up and online and things should be a little smoother the rest of the day. Thanks all for the patience.
We are going to take Zooomr down for about an hour while Kristopher makes a few changes to our system in order to […]

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System Status: Upgrade Notices

30 October 2006 | System Notices | 9 Comments

Hey Everyone, I’m back at our colo adding more servers, storage and subsequently more networking to handle the new goodies. So, I might have to disconnect some boxes and add them to the new network here… Starting at 17:30 PDT (GMT-8) we will be going offline for approximately an hour at most.
With love,
-Kristopher
UPDATE 17:37 […]

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嗨, 來自台、港、澳的朋友 / Hello Taiwanese, H.K. & Macau Friends

28 October 2006 | Announcements, System Notices | 10 Comments

So, I’ve been up for almost 72 hours now and I’m not done yet! Courtesy of Zooomr User Gem, Zooomr is now available in Chinese Traditional which brings our language count up to 18!
ALSO, in order to fit the new languages, I cleaned-up the footer element on each page. I think it looks much cleaner.
If […]

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Back Online

28 October 2006 | Announcements, System Notices | 32 Comments

Thanks to all of you for bearing with us over what has been a hellish past few days. On Thursday evening we had a massive hardware failure that took our photo storage system offline. As soon as we were aware of the failure Kristopher went down to our server farm where he […]

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Zooomr Service Update Video & Notes [UPDATEDx2]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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ZLog Daily Episode 9: Live from the Zooomr Data Center

26 October 2006 | System Notices, Video Blog | 11 Comments

Hey Everyone, I’ve been here on the scene for quite some time and I’m currently working hard to restore services — here’s a brief look into where I am. Thanks for your understanding.
With love,
-Kristopher

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Email Gateway Updates and ZLog #6!

23 October 2006 | Adventures, Announcements, System Notices | 8 Comments

Hey Everyone, our email gateway will be down from now until 23:45 PDT (GMT-7) — Otherwise, I’m going to be up in Seattle from tomorrow until Thursday morning — If you care to meet-up tomorrow, please let me know in the comments!
With love,
-Kristopher

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