QOTD #14

On redundancy and redundancy...

"We keep ridiculously steady backups of everything, and photos are replicated 3 times on three different kinds of equipment. In a word: Infallible."

QOTD #13

On being under attack...!

"Lots of traffic from Taiwan at the moment -- seems to be a DDOS attack -- but whatever, Zooomr can handle the load just fine! :) "

Zooomr was then down for the better part of a week after this comment.

Things will get better over time...

Or maybe they won't?

I can't even finish deleting my photos and comments.

Unfuckingbelieveable.

Intermission

Zooomr has more intermissions than bingo night at the old folks home. I guess that could be a good or a bad thing...Depends? (OK bad joke)



But seriously...how can people deal with this anymore? This was all supposed to be taken care of with the new Zooooooooooooooomr08 release, and then a week later when the C+ code went in place, then a week later with the load balancing, then a week later with the new lines being put in, then a week later with the new DB server, then...then...oh right, it's just Kris doing all this work by himself again, sorry, I forgot, I'll give him some more time.

Things to do during a Zooomr outtage

How nice of Kristopher to parade around showing off the office with his webcam via Ustream while Zooomr was out of commission this morning.


Maybe next time, when he mentions that he can't update the status page when he's in the middle of solving the issue, he will skip going to ZooomrTV and instead post an update, then get working on the issue.


Unless being offline means "Nominal"?

Zooomr to get newer, faster servers.

Zooomr will be getting some newer, faster database servers according to Kristopher. Users can expect to see some newer, faster system crashes and outtages within the next few weeks, stay tuned.

On Slowness and "Error 503's"

When it's not the DDoS, or the RAID controller, or the updated C+ code, or the hackers uploading 500MB ISOs, it's...poor planning once again.


Notes on Bumpiness from Kristopher on Vimeo.

Zooomr has it's Ups and Downs

Every day for the past week+ has gone something like this.


The natives are getting restless.

Things are looking UP at Zooomr!

That is, if by "UP" you actually mean "DOWN".



Bring on Zooomr2008!