Smugmug Availability??
Zanotti
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Down?
We're having some temporary difficulties. We expect full service to resume shortly. Sorry!
My Dell laptop crashed the last few days. Evidently Nvida, the video chip maker, has had an extremely high number of video chip failures. Its even on youtube showing failure mode. I got to see it live and inperson as my screen just melted down in front of me. Just making sure its not me, but a maintainance outage.........
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We're having some temporary difficulties. We expect full service to resume shortly. Sorry!
My Dell laptop crashed the last few days. Evidently Nvida, the video chip maker, has had an extremely high number of video chip failures. Its even on youtube showing failure mode. I got to see it live and inperson as my screen just melted down in front of me. Just making sure its not me, but a maintainance outage.........
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Does anyone know if SM usually has issues? I was thinking of converting my trial into a membership, but its been up and down today like a yoyo!
Same with me! I went to pay but the site is wonky. Is this normal?
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Our availability has been and continues to be really, really, really high. I'll stack us up against any competing service. We're not 5 9s but really, really close.
We continue to work on improvements that will improve speed, performance uptime and more.
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And you will be hard pressed to find better customer service.
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Thanks guys...just wanted to make sure it wasn't anything to do with my dodgy config - newbie on the lose here
Ken Burns = documentary maker? Wouldn't that be cool. (I'm sure you know the Ken Burns I'm thinking of)
<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/Laughing.gif" border="0" alt="" >, i do indeed. Whats really funny is I get hit up all the time on Soc.Media sites thinking I'm him <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/rolleyes1.gif" border="0" alt="" >
I hope this is fixed soon, not sure about machine screens melting, but mine is getting beaten pretty badly
Ken
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Sorry for the hassle!
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And even when there are outages, the speed and tact with which our inquiries are addressed is top notch. I don't think I'll ever leave SM. I think they'll have my credit card for life.
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Is this not supposed to be were we turn to for an update of what is going on. I do not know how many other people look to it but I do and I think it is good just wish it could be kept more up do date and in depth.
for you" and there/ their is no grammar check yet so please forgive me Jesus did.
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There is an update
http://smugmug.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/read-only-mode-2/
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for you" and there/ their is no grammar check yet so please forgive me Jesus did.
My Web site:
http://Glory2Jesus4Photography.smugmug.com/
My blog: http://glory2jesus4photography.blogspot.com/
Read-only mode
December 31, 2008 by Don MacAskill
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Andy, that date doesn't show on the site (from your link) that I can see. The only date is the 26th, referring to a previous update. If you hit the smugmug status update banner at the top it gives you today's date.
The wordpress page has been largely unavailable to me as well today.
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I think he is referring to the RSS feed. I just looked at the feed and the entry from today is not yet listed.
Here is what the RSS feed currently looks like:
SmugMug Status Updates
Official notifications and info about SmugMug outages
Maintenance 12/26/08
Friday, December 26, 2008 9:14 AM
12/19/08 night db outage
Saturday, December 20, 2008 2:52 AM
12/18/08 - Site outage
Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:06 PM
11/24/08 Network Issue
Monday, November 24, 2008 7:20 PM
11/11/08 - Database Grumpy
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:27 AM
Spooktacular Mainenance All Clear!
Friday, October 31, 2008 5:03 AM
10/30/2008 Maintenance - Outage
Friday, October 31, 2008 12:04 AM
10/30/2008 Pre-spooktacular Network Maintenance
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:40 PM
Brief emergency outage
Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:00 AM
10/23/08 Brief Network Maintenance
Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:46 AM
I wasn't trying to split hairs, just trying to help you see why some of your customers might be confused. The view from your link does NOT contain a date. Not a big deal to me, but I thought you'd want to know.
I guess I was wrong. Have a nice day.:D
But I can see why the other date might be confusing. Not much I can do about that right now, but I'm grateful to you for pointing it out. Thanks!
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But yes, there have been some issues in the past few weeks. We're making the site better & stronger though, after them so I expect performance to improve yet again. Nervous? Over the years, I'll stand our uptime record against any similar service.
We're sorry for today's read only mode - it's never good - but we'll get things back to normal just as fast as possible!
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on that....I uploaded a family shoot last night and they just called and placed a large order, they viewed the photos in read only mode.
Probably doubled my order with this family because they have a bunch of relatives here and they bought photos as well. If the site was dead I would have not have been popular with them.
Monte
I keep reading here that SmugMug has 99.99%+ uptime. How can that be? A single outage of an hour would make that untrue. The site has experienced many outages recently.
Failures can always happen. With respect to the database stuff, I recommend implementing some sort of spare which is continuously updated. Most or all enterprise-class RDBMSs offer such a feature. Then even if the unthinkable happens, and redundant systems on a particular machine all fail at once, you're still okay and recovery can be very fast.
Time to get a beta site and limit production changes to every 6 months...
If flickr ever gets a way to a create custom view of pages, you guys might be in trouble... I can print a picture on flickr for $.15 and pick it up at target in one hour... And their printing is easy and CHEAP. I just tried printing one of my pics here and it hourglassing...
It's a new year, time to plan, or start fresh with smugmug2.0!
Someone (smug'ns) needs team up with facebook and take over all their photo needs... Facebook+SmugMug = FaceSmug|SmugFace|MugBook|SmugBook
You should also team up with cooliris, they are on to something...
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Hope this comes back up soon, and doesnt go back down for quite a while.