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Posted on May 26th, 2008 by megalar

From is twitter dying?:

It seems that everyday now there is a problem with . Not too long ago I heard say that if the public jumps on it will go down. Is that what is happening? Today their main database, db006, went down. I always know something is wrong when Twhirl wont let me get tweets even if I haven’t gone over the limit.

It seems from the comments that people are pretty understanding when it comes to . I tend to agree with them, to a certain point. Free services such as Wordpress.com have brought expectations up on free services. Although, the can be quite frustrating.

Why can’t they just get some decent hardware and produce some better uptime? I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to raise some money.

Lets take a closer look at this:
“Not too long ago I heard say that if the public jumps on it will go down. Is that what is happening?”
Fearmonger.
“It seems from the comments that people are pretty understanding when it comes to .”
Look again, people are acting like children. Everything is normal.
“Free services such as Wordpress.com have brought expectations up on free services.”
11,000 nails per hour. That’s an old article. How many hits per hour you think it gets now? My money is on more. You think wordpress gets that kinda traffic? Doubtful. If for no other reason than the posts are usually longer than a tweet so people take longer to read them.
“Why can’t they just get some decent hardware and produce some better uptime?”
You are confusing the issue. They are in the middle of an almost complete architectural redesign. Also, can you imagine the size of the db? I can’t. You ever do a backup restore of a db larger than ~100mb? It takes a while.

I don’t mean to pick on you dude. Truth is, I picked your post because it was the first in the link list on man down. Please don’t take all this the wrong way. I think most of the we see about this outage is due to ’s new policy of trying to be more transparent about service problems. And for the record, I doubt is dying. But what do I know.

Yahoo

Posted on May 24th, 2008 by megalar

This post began as a potential comment somewhere on 0xDECAFBAD but I couldn’t really decide which post it belonged on so I have decided to post it here instead. I know that l.m.orchard occasionally viewed my old blog thanks to MyBlogLog, so I’m hoping that he might stumble across this one. If so perhaps he will see this post and respond. As an added bit of insurance I’ll be sending him the link via del.icio.us :D.

So here it is:
You are probably the only [former] employ I have ever had any sort of with so I wonder if I could pick your brain about something. I’ve lately been kinda worried about all the data I have stored in various services (especially when I heard the M$ rumors). What do you think will happen when it gets swallowed up by M$ or some other giant? has been pretty good about allowing the vision behind the companies it has acquired to continue. I’m uncertain if another company would have the same , especially if that company happened to be or M$.

p.s. While this is directed at deusx anyone should feel free to respond especially if you have some inside knowledge of Y!.