Technorati Down Up

Kevin August 31, 2003 Blogosphere 3 Comments

Technorati appears to be down. I went to Dave Sifry’s blog and found this, but it’s from a week ago. Must be a different problem.

Update: Dave details the problem in the comments. Vacations are database problem magnets…

Kevin founded Wizbang in 2003. He still contributes occasionally and handles all the technical and design work for the site.

Daniel Morris August 31, 2003

It’s been down since yesterday, and Daypop too. Haven’t heard why…
David Strain August 31, 2003

I know this use of the word “down” has worked its way into our vocabulary now to mean “inoperative”, but I still can’t quite escape the association with feeling down.

Technorati’s down? Aw. We all have those days. We should send it some flowers and take it out for a drink.

D
David Sifry August 31, 2003

Hey, I’d love some flowers and chocolates, thanks. 🙂

Yes, the site went down early Saturday morning, a master database machine on one of our clusters went wacky. Normally, that wouldn’t be much of a problem, but of course, Murphy had his way, as I was just about to get on a plane with the family for a vacation. 🙁

So, what would have ordinarily not been a serious problem turned into one, primarily because I couldn’t get in there and fix things right away.

Sorry for the inconvenience! Things should be back up again – I mean, I found this post via my Technorati watchlist… 🙂

Dave