Downtime

I am sensitive to light and sound when I am trying to sleep. Even as a child, I used my blankie to cover my eyes while sleeping. Now as an adult I sometimes use a sleep mask, and I LOVE my white noise machine. I think Deeds has inherited my light-sleeper gene (he has his own white noise machine), and I was a little worried about how over 36 hours of travel would affect his ability to sleep. I

Sooner or later, you might want to, or need to, change web hosts. Perhaps you've found a better package. Or maybe your website needs more features. Either way, you might be reluctant to move your website for fear of downtime. After all, downtime can result in the loss of visitors and hurt your position in search engines. Fortunately, it is possible to move a website without any downtime. In this

This Sunday, the New York Times joined the conversation on downtime, with an article titled “As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll.” The article made several points familiar to readers of IT’s About Uptime, including Downtime causes significant user frustration. There has been significant, public downtime of both well known “web 2.0” properties as well as back [...]

First Off, I apologize greatly for the downtime we experienced, We had some server trouble and were working as fast as possible to resolve the issues. I am writing a small article covering the past few days activity on some of the events. This article is going to be all over the place, but I [...]

UPDATE 7.3.08: the update was successful -  check out the new text option on the layout editor! CoolChaser will be down for around an hour July 3rd 3-4am PDT. Look out for cool new features after this brief down time!

Ah…Twitter.  The microblogging site that allows you to instantly update your status based on the question “What are you doing?”.  If you haven’t discovered Twitter by now, you’re late to the game.  In fact, Twitter’s popularity has grown so rapidly the site simply can no longer accommodate the users anymore.  Goodness knows I’ve had my fair share [..

We can’t apologize enough for the recent downtime. We are still unsure of the reason, but it seems there was a communication breakdown, and our host decided they were moving out of Amsterdam, and never told us. This  (I believe) caused the 2 day downtime, and there wasn’t much we could do about it. Anyway, [...]

Some of you will have heard of the ThePlanet.com datacenter explosion and subsequent downtime over the last 3 days. We use ThePlanet.com for hosting our main billing server and our Colorteck.com website. We do not host any clients with ThePlanet (rather we have our own racks elsewhere).Also our live support system has experienced some technical issues with live chats being disconnected. This is do

Theplanet being the number 1 privately held dedicated server hosting provider in the world and one of the industry’s fastest, most robust networks (100 gigabits/sec) had some thing instore for them yesterday.At 5:45 p.m a transformer in their H1 data center (in Houston) caught fire effecting a large number of customers’ servers and a big [...]

Just a quick note to apologise for the downtime we have experienced today (23/05/08) and for any inconvenience it may have caused, especially for those being unceremoniously ejected from the site whilst browsing – the issue appears to have been centred on the fact that the hosting company we rent our server from experienced some major technical difficulties which, obviously, were completely beyo

Twitter, a new social network Service which started few months ago, went down for some hours again. One of the workers at Twitter, Evan gave some information about the downtime yesterday: “It is not entirely to do with the Democrats, Space Aliens, Mysterious Men in Black, or Arugula. In fact, this afternoon’s service interruption does not [...]

Among the worst thing that may happen to a site or blog is experiencing downtime. For a blog or site, this temporary or frequent downtime may cause decrease in readership, rejected or withheld monetizing opportunities or even decrease in page rank (PR). In an organization set-up, more and more companies these days depend on network [...]

We had the opportunity to catch up with ZDNet’s Michael Krisgman on project failures, the cause of failure, and examples of companies that have handled project failure well (and not so well). Michael is a noted expert on IT failures and is CEO of Asuret, Inc., a software and consulting company dedicated to reducing software [...]

Inside the Hall was down for a majority of the day on Wednesday due to an issue with our host. We’ve had instances with down time, but nothing quite like that. So without going into any more detail than you care to hear, we apologize and hope that its smooth sailing from here. (We thought [...]

Blogger has been quite unstable for the past few days. Navigating around the “Dashboard” using Firefox is slower than Internet Explorer at times. It is definitely inconvenient especially if you are running a few blogs. The downtime has also affected the traffic.The plan to switch over to Wordpress has been a dream since years ago. Priority and urge have been battling throughout me. Skai Chan @

What Happened On the morning of Sunday, April 13th, internet telephone consolidator GrandCentral (owned by Google) had a several hour long outage. All GrandCentral customers were unable to receive phone calls through their “number for life” and the GrandCentral website was also offline. During the outage, there was no communication to customers or the community at large [...]

Yesterday is bad day Yesterday is bad day,.. My blog can not be access, ya may be the server is down or the administrator doing some maintenance. so I do not know exactly. I am personally would like to ask apologize to my visitor and ads partner. So yesterday i did not post anything. ones again please for give me.

Sorry about the recent downtime, we had no control over it once again. The server we were on had a hardware failure and lost connection. We had to wait until the server was rebooted and then have our accounts moved onto a new server… Anyway, hopefully this time will do it.

Last night, I decided to download and install bbpress to see what the program is like on my cool server. It was easy to install the program, but getting it to integrate with this WordPress blog was the pits. No matter how hard I tried and how much they say it’s easy to integrate bbpress [...]

  E-Business Suite Release 12 provides a useful mechanism for the Applications administrators to start the Apache on the applications tier during down time. Applications administrator can start the apache in a mode called restricted mode. Down time tasks like patching can continue to be performed while the Apache is in restricted mode. Restricted access to Oracle Applications Manager (OAM

In a previous blog series, we reviewed techniques for IT operations teams to quantify the possible cost of downtime. For online businesses, downtime can be damaging because it is a direct interruption to the availability of the core business. In the last several weeks, there have been notable occasions where businesses have offered direct financial compensation [...]

Ladies and gentlemen,It is interesting to take note here that KaushalSheth Dot Com has listed the following the web hosting companies are the best web hosting service providers we have in the world market today:Host MonsterHost GatorYahoo HostAccording to Kaushal Sheth, the guy behind KaushalSheth Dot Com, he himself is relying upon Host Monster to take care of his web hosting needs and so far Host Monster has given him excellent support with zero downtime! That is pretty impressive. You can find the links to the recommended web hosting service providers from his site; just follow the link that I have provided earlier.While I’m at it, I might as well mention that Kaushal Sheth likes to design websites as well. He has even provided a few cool looking WordPress, TextPattern and Blogger the

There will be approximately 20 minutes of downtime for adserver.socialspark.com on Thursday at 7am where we will not be gathering stats. The downtime should help improve the performance problems we're seeing.

As you can see the website is backup the host moved box again. The downtime occured because of some technical problemes a technician couldn’t setup the box. Meanwhile i will be working on another site to prevent such Awfull downtimes. Wish me luck and thank you for your visit. Tags: Server, News, Downtime Share This

March 17th, 2008 | Point of Sale InvestingYou would never want your point of sale system to be down because you ran out of paper. The same is true with regard to not have a supply of ribbons to use when your existing ribbon gets too light to read.We are not suggesting that you have a warehouse full of backup printers, but we are suggesting that you can almost eliminate your downtime by having a single backup printer for your business.Receipt and remote printers are the parts of your point of sale system most prone to failure. They get the most use and have the most wear and tear of any part of your system. If a part of your point of sale system is going to break it will most likely be one of your printers.Article thanks to myposprinter.

Hello to our fellow loyal readers,  Over the past week or so, the servers that our blog is hosted on have seen a lot of downtime due to various reasons beyond our control here at MMandYou. We have emailed and called our host several times and were notified that it wasn’t only our account that was experiencing [...]

Those of you who visit from the United States or Australia regions will notice that the site will be down for a few hours later today. While everybody in Europe is sleeping, it will move to another server, fixing the performance problems & database errors some of you might have noticed during the last [...]

Due to the high traffic, bandwidth and slowdown of the site, we have decided to move Photo.net.ph to a new host. Our new hosting service is Wehostem optimized for photo galleries and has really good personalized service (thanks tim!) .. worry free! … we hostem now host our 2 photo sites.. photo.netph and stockphotos.ph stockphotos.ph is [...]

Update: Hopefully everything is back to normal now. As far as I can tell, all the images, scripts and templates are back in place. But if anyone notices something amiss, please do let me know! It seems that my hosting provider is suffering some downtime. I've contacted tech support to find out why many features of this site are inaccessible and hopefully will have this resolved very quickly. My sincere apologies to all readers and users of this site. As soon as I know any more, I will be sure to post this here!

I overran my allowed bandwidth by a shitload in one day on another site on this plan. I apologize for the downtime… I also noticed that some site in somalia is stealing a photo from the site (Of soldier boy smellum no less.) I don’t mind that, but they’re hotlinking to it (I’m guilty of that too at times.). So i replaced it with this. It’s ugly, and it hurts my eyes.. Win/Win. Here’s the page, As of now it’s the first image on there… I wonder how long it will take for them to notice. Anyway, sorry for the downtime.

The launch of a new cache battery monitoring capability for QSystem Monitor is announced by CCSS on Tuesday, their IBM Server Proven performance monitoring and reporting solution. Unique to the market, the cache battery monitor means Systems Managers can save considerable time in checking the existing life for every cache battery in the system and any associated downtime linked to replacing them. During the course of typical processing, before data is written to disk, it is stored in the cache which is backed up by specialist batteries to keep the data viable in the event of unexpected downtime. When the batteries are near end of life, the system issues a message to alert operators to check the battery status and make an appointment for an IBM engineer to replace them. If this message is missed or ignored, for example when the message is issued out of hours or to a particularly stretched management team, batteries may fail and cause the system to begin writing data directly to disk

This blog has been moved to a new server to increase its performance. The previous server was suffering many downtime on its database server especially when this blog receiving a surge of visitor number from digg or stumbleupon and leaving the Apache server live without connection to mysql database. After considering several alternative of hosting company, we decided to use hosting service from Bluehost. Our decision is mainly based on the simplicity of Bluehost hosting plan. One plan with four price and payment possibility. The problem was on moving process from the old server to the new one without affecting all visitors. Fortunately cpanel backup features help this migration a lot and simplify the process. First I made backup from the latest database. This step can be easily done from phpMyadmin control panel. Just press export button and save all table of this blog to a single file. Then I created a new table on the new server and importing all data from the backup file. Second,

I would like to apologize for this blog's downtime. I have been trying to fix it, sending emails to google/blogger/blogspot support centers like crazy. The efforts I made to restore the blog back proved to be useless since I don't have overall control of this blog's settings, or at least on the technical part of it since this is a blog that is hosted for free by blogger/blogspot - a site that google owns.I almost gave up on it but I thought to try one last thing and contact my friend who hosted this blogs new domain http://incomeforeveryone.info. Little did I know he was having problems with his webhost and did a rollback of all his server's settings. Minutes after, the blog went back online.Happy reading everyone! :)

After today's hardware failures at our data center, we need to schedule some downtime for PayPerPost.com. Tonight at midnight Eastern time, PayPerPost.com will be taken offline for about one hour. This is to rebuild our failover cluster with new hardware. The failover processes we have in place worked just fine earlier when we suffered the failures, and so now we need to rebuild that cluster so that we're fine the next time it happens as well. Thanks for your patience.

If you have ever had a baby, you know how frustrating it is when they go from the “sleep anywhere any time no matter what” newborn phase to the “blackout blinds no movement no anything” picky sleeper phase. Par.entrepreneur Andrea Verity knows that transition all too well but she was smart enough to do something about it. She developed the Downtime Sleepy Hat when her son made that unwelcome transition. The hat is made of soft & luxurious organic cotton and looks like a normal hat - until you flip down the flap over baby’s eyes. As you can see in the picture at right, the hat becomes an effective visual stimulation & light blocker once flipped down and is also outwardly expressive. As in, it tells those little ladies who insist on touching your kid that it’s not an appropriate time. In addition to the company’s great low impact policies and the downright brilliant idea, I love the safety aspect of the Downtime Sleepy Hat - unlike

Mixx has been gaining popularity at a rate so rapid, that its servers haven't been able to handle the traffic. I suppose ever since that post on Techcrunch happened, Mixx's popularity has just shot sky high, which has resulted it to look like this.I think the guys at Mixx seriously need to look into the capacity issues and buckle their seat belts, coz the traffic is just gonna shoot high, and if they want that user satisfaction they wanna boast off, and of course keep their loyal users happy, this should be considered first priority.P.S. It's 1:00am here in India, and I am blogging. Unfortunately, I can't mixx it now. Better luck next time.

In order to roll out support for RealRank within PayPerPost, and of course to move the SocialSpark Tracker live (the bit that calculates your RealRanks), we will be taking PayPerPost.com offline at 3pm Eastern time for approx 15 minutes. It will probably be less than that actually. Please bear in mind, as per my other posts on the subject, you will not have a RealRank assigned to your blogs at that point. We need to collect 1 day of data before we can calculate what a rank would be, so expect to see your ranks updating tomorrow in the early hours of the morning. Thanks for your patience.

As many of you might have noticed, yesterday afternoon, the Plumber returned– Bloglines experienced some downtime. The team has been looking into the situation and has attributed the root cause to multiple machine hardware failure due to human error. As people who not only work on Bloglines, but use Bloglines, you can be assured that we’re monitoring the situation closely and will put improvements in place to prevent downtime in the future. - Eric Engleman & the Bloglines Team

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Lists that prove just how much of a TV-junkie I am, and some more. My sister and I have color-coded, computerized tabled lists that shows who will download what per day to maximize bandwidth. Mac has this amazing program called TV Shows that automatically downloads the right torrent file at the right time and even opens up Azureus/Transmission for me automatically as well. We schedule the times when we are able to watch our shows. Contrary to what this list has made me sound like, I usually am out all the time. My sister and I have agreed we shall watch together, so we have to actually ‘schedule it in.’ I can name the US networks and time slots of all those shows. In fact, I have been recently fascinated with TV ratings and the show’s demographic, especially amongst competitive time slots, networks and shows.

UPDATE: CoolChaser is back up following a successful server upgrade. Thanks all for your patience. ***** CoolChaser will not be available at 3.30am PDT Oct 9th 2007 for around 90 minutes, as we do a server upgrade to speed up our databases. Sorry for the short notice and check this blog for updates!

Americans using Google are 10 times more likely to encounter a problem accessing the Google search site than Brazilians, according to a new study. From September 1, 2006 to September 1, 2007, Brazil had only three minutes of downtime on Google search, compared with 31 minutes for the U.S., says Pingdom, a Swedish Web site monitoring [...]

aqua bear cd mem Well again it seems I’m having more downtime. My host doesn’t believe me but the 3 people who’ve emailed me about it certainly do! I’m getting royally pissed off with this atm but I just can’t afford to move. It doesn’t work for me at home or at uni, for Matt, Ryan or May all on different ISP’s yet apparently its the ISP’s fault?! I want you all to copy and paste this so you know what to do next time the servers down. Firstly, find your IP: http://whatismyip.com. Then go here: http://whatismyip.com and do a traceroute on 216.180.230.29. Then email your IP and the traceroute results to han@eruanna.net. Obviously this only applies when the sites down - hence why your all going to copy and paste and save it now :). I’m sorry I’ve been so quiet lately, I have 9 o’clock lectures every morning and I don’t get back till at least 5 every day and then I either go out or collapse on the sofa. I actually go

Update: The deployment went smoothly and was over in 20 minutes. Do less us know if you see any glitches tho’. Thanks! _______ CoolChaser will not be available at 11pm PDT Sep 5th 2007 for under an hour, as we do a server upgrade. We are working on providing attribution to flickr users on the Myspace profile itself. We also provide a link to where the original image was sourced on any of the search engines we provides interfaces for (google, yahoo and flickr), so that users can better determine if they have the right to use the image on the profiles. More fixes to come, so stay tuned!

This bluehost review blog had been hosted with bluehost hosting for about 6 months. At mid of last month i activated the server uptime monitoring service for this bluehostreview.org. So that i can know what is the bluehost server uptime, and any downtime detected will be recorded as well. For the month August 2007, the bluehost uptime is almost 100%. Everyday is having 100% uptime except the 27th and 29th August, where there is single outage/failure detected. The server monitoring are carried out from vaious location over the world, and when single node is failed, it will counted as failure/downtime. Here is the bluehost uptime and bluehost downtime statistic for month August 2007: The report also shows the average response time is 0.352 seconds. And that is consider a very fast response time. Server took only less that one second to reply user request and loading page. You can revisit to this bluehost uptime section in future, as i will post more uptime report at here. Hope these inf

This is the new column about hostgator uptime and hostgator downtime. And at this wonderful column, i will post up monthly uptime and downtime statistic. Hostgator shared hosting is promosing a 99.9% uptime for baby plan and onward, and either they really managed to deliver it? We will find out here. I uses the serviceuptime.com monitoring services and sign up to their premium paid service to get the best monitoring result. Supprisingly, i am getting zero downtime for this hostgator hosted review blog for this August 2007. Its 100% uptime so far. Here is crop out the service uptime stats and its as following: The stat shows that its 100% uptime, and the average response time is 0.428 second. That is less than one second, and this mean this hostgator server really fast. There is no failure or outage at all over the month. Impressive hosting services from hostgator. And i strongly recommend it to everyone! August 2007, Hostgator Rating: 9.8 out of 10 Go to Hostgator.com Share This

This is just a quick and short post to tell visitors of this blog ( and of other Blogger.com blogs ) that there was a short downtime period today. Because of that, all those who own a blog here at Blogger, didn't had the opportunity to make any new posts. This blog you're visiting right now ( http://myppcadvertising.blogspot.com ) wasn't updated either with any new posts for today.But this is no reason for you not to visit it anymore. Also, there's no reason to unsubscribe from my mailing list or RSS feed news. Downtimes are a usual thing for websites, blogs or servers, due to multiple causes, such as maintenance or any other technical problems.As soon as I'm done with this post, I'll start creating other new and fresh posts. The subject I'm going to talk about in those posts is search engine optimization ( also known as SEO ). You'll read about some of the best SEO tips in general and about SEO tips for blog owners.So please bookmark this blog or subscribe to my mailing list o

I apologize for the downtime earlier. Blogger's server decided it was going to stop responding and take every Blogger hosted site with it... Just additional motivation for me to finally put up a self-hosted/built website and to stop relying on Blogger. It seems I am back up and running now though, so it should *crosses fingers* be fixed.

It is Friday and Skype is still down but keep coming up in sections. But please let me know what an algorithmic deficiency is? I am suffering from Alcoholic deficiency being this is Friday afternoon and been thirsty for a week! This controls the interaction between me and my friends who drive me home to prevent me from getting a DUI and have nice car for next day to run around! I end up having breakfast for lunch and call it brunch in a nearby restaurant.But the main reason I brought the alcohol up is, once I had it, I too, don't know what I am saying.I found this on the heartbeat blog by skype mentioned in my previous post on Skype outage, The new posts will bring updated information. Hopefully not after a weekend of drinking.But I can't login;) to post a comment asking the question;what is an algorithmic deficiency?Tags: skype, skype down, skype outage, algorithmic deficiency

Dreamhost had a big network issue today, which brought me down during a peak hour, with lots of users online...I wish my cache extension was intelligent enough to make the pages static when a speed problem begins to happen...Oh well...Site is back, and I hope nobody missed out on anything...no use crying over spilled milk!

Update: deployment was success! Let us know if you see any glitches… We’re upgrading url.com with speedier code and bug fixes. Url.com will be unavailable for under half an hour starting at 10pm PDT Aug 15th 2007.

Hostmonster.com hosting server is so realible, and the downtime is merely impossible. This the main reason i love hostmonster so much. Their web server uptime is good, and email pop/smtp server uptime is good as well. My outlook will connect to hostmonster mail server every 5 minutes to check for mail, and its very unlikely to jump into outlook connection error to hostmonster. After 4 months with hostmonster, i finally met some downtime at hostmonster server. Its where the website hosted with hostmonster is not available for about 10 minutes. The time i realise it, i had the server status monitoring system running, just to monitor the downtime if any. Email alert arive and i quickly jump to hostmonster.com and start a live chat with the support team to acknowledge them on the site downtime. And after few minutes with the hostmonster support, and some ping and tracert testing from my pc. Finally found out the problem is caused by internet route between me and hostmonster datacentre. Som

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In the next few days www.webclans.net and its sub-domains and www.vbulletin-templates.com will have downtime for a few days while i move these accounts to the same host as this site and bluepearl-design.com  Once the move is complete you will see alot of speed difference

I wanted to address some of the “downtime” this site has had recently. Obviously it’s been accessible, but it’s not been updated as often as I would have liked. This is being rectified by a couple of things: Restructuring of the staff. My current main assistant, Traci, will see her role in the site increase. In addition, there are finally some others interested in helping with updates to the site. I expect that this will play the biggest part in keeping the site well maintained as, frankly, it’s quite hard to do by yourself. Other web site commitments I’ve been involved with are essentially over. Digital Devil Database, currently, is the only “hobby” project I am involved with and therefore will receive a lot more of my attention. My actual job is relaxing some and will seemingly remain as such for most of the year. Good news. Essentially this site will again become the priority it was for me in earlier this year when the switch to the

My apologies for the downtime: their have been some serverupgrades that didn’t work out quite well … but the problem should be fixed now! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Just a quick heads up - PayPal, which processes our financial transactions, will have a couple hours of downtime for a scheduled update. This should begin around 11:00 p.m. tonight, EST. All PayPal functions will be unavailable. This should have minimal effect on our community, and PayPal expects to be back up around 1:00 a.m. tomorrow. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us via a Ticket. Thanks!Karen

Earlier today our hosting company performed a scheduled maintenance on our server. This important security related action required a long period of downtime (~3:30AM - 6.15AM EST). The issue is now resolved and everything's back to normal. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience and would like to thank you for your patience and understanding!

We apologize if you have been having difficulties connecting to the site. We determined that none of our php or java was causing the problems, and it turns out that our host is having some issues with the server this site is hosted on. We are back online now and the problem has been fixed. Thanks.

We'll be taking PayPerPost down briefly tonight at midnight so we can replicate the database to a new backup server. The new backup server matches our new main database server so in the unlikely event we need to use it, website performance won't take a hit.We'll also be making a small configuration change to the database in preparation for installing all new hardware for the rest of the servers running PayPerPost.The system will be down for 15-20 minutes.

Pingdom is big on monitoring websites for downtime and is truly an amazing service. You can pay a monthly fee to have Pingdom monitor your own site, but they also have a service called Pingdom GIGRIB that currently monitors 2,000 websites across the Web. The GIGRIB service is unique in how it works, and is actually free. The reason it doesn’t cost anything is because you have to setup your computer to run the software, which will monitor other websites for downtime. For every one hour that your server does checking for downtime on other sites, you receive five hours of checking from other servers. I like to compare it to the BitTorrent network where the work is distributed across thousands of computers. This is the same service that we mentioned a few weeks ago that monitored the downtime of the top 20 sites on the Internet. If you use the GIGRIB service, your downtime stats are also made publically available, which makes it fun watch for downtime on some sites like YouTube (who has

We've had a problem with one of the tables in the database getting crazily big and slowing things down. An attempt to address that though has lead to us taking the app offline for a short while. We should be back up in about 30 minutes.

Some of you may have noticed that we were offline for the better part of Wednesday. Our apologies to those of you who stopped by and found that nobody was home. Our web host ran into a little trouble during an update, but all was put right in due time. We are back at functioning at 100%. A quick note about our host… On Christmas eve of 2004 an associate and I were transfering images from a photographer in Afghanistan that we had been working with. The deadline was tight, we were determined to make it happen even if it mean working on Christmas eve. All at once things went sideways and the FTP server just up and died. No less than 10 minutes after sending an email to tech support they not only responded but fixed the problem… on Christmas eve. If your in need of a website or a domain, I highly suggest you consider Smile Internet Networks. They have never let me down. Thanks again guys. Keep up the good work. ~Origin

We're growing, and I'm sure that's pretty obvious to all of you. From a technical perspective this has presented us with quite some challenges. We've needed to optimize the application almost weekly to meet demand, without pouring vast amounts of cash into new servers. We've needed to be on the ball monitoring load and performance as well, in order to respond when bad things happen. Testing, in a development and pre-production environment, has had to be ramped up considerably after we've repeatedly found our tests don't address the sorts of issues tens of thousands of users throw at PayPerPost.com in the live environment. It's been a challenge, to say the least. Along the way we've had some issues and failures, but also some successes. They tend to go unnoticed by and large. While there was something of a furore surrounding our segmenting out filled opportunities last week, it's worth pointing out that that release also introduced zero new errors. We even made a release on Fr

Please accept my apologies if you tried to access this site over the last 12 hours and were greeted with an unfriendly “bad_httpd_conf” error. I have ranted about Dreamhost troubles earlier. And after all that, I still haven’t switched my service provider. I delayed switching after Dreamhost offered to put me on a different server and things looked better. I should have known better… Anyways, this is how procrastination bites. Note to self: LEAVE-DREAMHOST-NOW. stuffShare This

Each site below links to its GIGRIB report page where you can examine their uptime and downtime more closely. These are the 20 most popular websites in the United States, according to Alexa. Here you can see the downtime so far in 2007 for each of these 20 websites, as measured by GIGRIB. Source & Image:royal.pingdom

Pingdom just published a report measuring total 2007 downtime to date for the top 20 sites on the web as ranked by Alexa. Leading the list is Yahoo with zero downtime. Google’s YouTube and Blogger.com are the worst performers, with over 4 hours of downtime each (although Google.com is very reliable).

For my readers here who are ChaCha users or guides, You will notice there is a lot of downtime. From whats being said they are doing work on the servers. I personally thing someone pressed a wrong button. This is the first time I’ve experienced problems since I joined on the 2/13/07 and I’ve made over 70 dollars with them in my spare time. The downtime is now costing me money! I love to do my searches and I keep a weekly goal of how much I am going to make and now I cannot do that, as it takes me 7 minutes to return 1 result. The forum members have not been helpful in the least about when this will be resolved and I am not happy. This is my first complaint about chacha as of yet. I had 2 people I was sponsoring as guides and both are completely turned off. This is very upsetting to me.

Url.com was down for just under 2 hours today (0926-1111 hrs PST). We apologize for the inconvenience. We were already investigating into better fault tolerant architectures to try to prevent this from happening again, so this is a good wake up call to action. We are seriously considering Amazon’s EC2. It definitely seems like a great long-term solution, although we are worried that it’s very new and still in beta. Anyone know of how other websites have fared with EC2? Ruby on Rails deployments would be especially pertinent.

YouTube, the popular video uploading and sharing site is currently facing a scheduled downtime for maintenance, as a result all the embedded YouTube videos of this blog are currently unavailable. The spaces where the videos are embedded will currently be displayed as an empty space; however, the embedded YouTube videos will be available as soon as the YouTube scheduled maintenance is over and

This is the second time in the New Year 2007, YouTube; the popular video sharing website has had a scheduled downtime. Last time it had had a scheduled downtime was yesterday when initially new member registration, uploading videos, and adding comments were disabled but later on the entire website was temporarily unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Also view Embedded Online Videos Unavailable

www.GraduateGames.com (our site) may be down over the next couple days as we change over our email addresses and all that other good stuff to the above domain. It shouldn't take too long, but all our support and sales email addresses will change as a result, but more on that when it's finished.I have gotten a lot of responses from the Indie Game forums with games to check out. Thanks everyone for your interests and if the avid support keeps up, I will devise a queue system so that you can better submit your games and schedule when a review will be finished. Please let me know if that's a good idea and whatnot.As always, a Link Exchange would be great! or you can blogroll me or whatever. Thanks again and don't fret if the arcade games are down for a day or two.