Comments on: Failure Friday: Red Herring, Magnolia, and Pageflakes go dark

Several popular sites went down for various reasons and we sort out the mess.

[big8news]

dom there go's my live video profile now livevideo 's is gone and ylive is gone too

[romeyinfc]

To be fair, Revver did post notice that they would undergoing maintenance on Thursday, but never gave any ETA or indication that it would be a while. Nonetheless that's pretty disparaging to fall of the grid the way these sites have.

[Joetwopointoh]

And cloud computing is the future? :)

Even if Pageflakes does return I think the resource is fatally wounded now. People have been leaving in droves over the last few months. In my opinion the management team there have made 10 fatal mistakes
( http://tinyurl.com/abgv7p ) which include ignoring their users, ignoring the competition and not taking part in the conversations surrounding the product.

[gmcbay]

google is messed up right now too, they are marking ALL websites as harmful and blocking access with their "Safe Browsing" feature when you try to get to the site via the google link. They are even blocking themselves (google for google, try to visit the google link that appears in the first result...)

Failure Friday indeed!

[Astinsan]

Try changing your dns servers. I used to have that problem.

[rapier1]

" Early Friday, the social-bookmarking site experienced data corruption and loss, which the company says will take "weeks" to sort out."

There really is no excuse for that. Database replication is boring and annoying but its a crucial part of business disaster recovery management (the good DRM one could say). That they didn't have any way to quickly roll out a duplicate database and get the site back up quickly is really just unforgivable.

[bmn_1213]

In the realm of "no excuse for that" is the ongoing outage on Revver and other Live Universe "properties." If you know there is going to be an extended outage, you don't just let requests time out, you transfer traffic to an outside site where you post updates about the outage, then re-route traffic once things are back in order. Maybe Brad Greenspan is out on a street corner with a cardboard sign trying to drum up enough spare change to pay hosting bills?

[Walterhouse5]

I think each of those companies could have benefited from the web uptime monitoring service offered by http://www.webserviceguard.com.

We monitor outside of your network and firewall giving you actual results from your customer's perspective, all with no software to install.