Del.icio.us sleeps…
Bookmarking site Del.icio.us has been down for a few days now. The Del.icio.us blog explains why:
Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we are dealing with a number of continued hiccups. We’ve taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have this resolved as soon as possible. Thank you for your continued patience.
But that doesn’t seem to calm some people. In the post explaing the situation, there’s the usual Yahoo flaming as some people seem to think it’s Yahoo’s fault that the main power line to the building where Del.icio.us is hosted was cut. Come on!
Having said that, I think it’s strange that a site with so much traffic as Del.icio.us, doesn’t have an UPS system running. Not that an UPS can stop any power problem, but at least it could hold the power long enough for the engineers to shut down the systems in a nice way, preventing disk chrashes and corrupt data.
The servers that are down at the moment, can be seen here.
Update: After three days and 468 comments it’s back up again. Aaaahh… Don’t we love Del.icio.us? Yes, we do.
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