[ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Outage
There was a brief downtime last night; I screwed up the DNS entries. By the time you're reading this, apparently all is working again.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Update 00:15 GMT: As it turned out, the server setup was screwed up as well, erratically delivering feed data to unrelated feeds. :(
I don't find the right words to tell you how sorry I am about this. As you might imagine, this didn't happen intentionally. There's no excuse for this, especially since some public aggregators like Bloglines have picked up the erratic feed items by now. The feeds are working again, just like before the incident, but I can't deny there was some damage done. I especially want to apologize to all you nice people who have requested custom feeds. I am sorry. I'll try my best to ensure this won't happen again.
-Carlo
12 Comments:
So, would that explain a bunch of my comics feeds suddenly flooding with links from the German site http://www.heute.t-online.de/? :-D
I don't think they've been updated since they were working, but it was pretty funny. ^_^
02 December, 2004 00:27
Yes, I'm working on it. I'm currently fixing everything. *sigh* Expect the feeds to be up working correctly again within the next 6 hours.
Sorry for the downtime.
Carlo
02 December, 2004 00:37
Thanks for the explanation. Thanks also for all the good work you do with the feeds, it's much appreciated.
02 December, 2004 01:28
No problems. Thanks for all your hard work.
02 December, 2004 01:35
No need to feel bad about it, or apologizing. You provide a valuable service which /is/ appreciated, and we all know weird things can happen once you 'su -' ;)
A huge thank you for all the feeds.
02 December, 2004 02:59
RAR SO ANGRY.
Or.. no.
Thank you, Carlos, for the work you do daily, or whenever you do it, for it is certainly quite good work.
02 December, 2004 07:05
Dude, it's all good. I can't tell you how happy I am that I can get feeds from some of these sites on a regular basis - we really really really appreciate all the work you put into this. If one day I get a bunch of feeds in German and I think maybe I'm hallucinating, who's to say I don't hallucinate on a regular basis anyway? :P And hey, it happens. :}
02 December, 2004 16:09
Thanks for the heads up. Your feeds' readers appreciate it.
02 December, 2004 16:33
thanks for your feeds.
the dns glitch was amusing, and not a real problem for me.
during the outage, i did notice that http://www.pythonware.com/daily/ has it's own full text feed now. so i'm using it now instead of yours.
thanks again.
02 December, 2004 20:44
It was kind of fun to see "Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox" spewing out German. :)
Your obviously-sincere and profuse apology is greatly appreciated. A simple "oops" would have sufficed, but it's nice to know you care so much about this service. Thanks!
03 December, 2004 00:51
First off, thanks for providing a fantastic service!
Is there any chance the error message could be retired from the top of the feeds now?
My somewhat limited feed reader doesn't mark them as new content because it only checks the top item.
Cheers
Paul
15 December, 2004 10:25
Good idea, actually. :)
15 December, 2004 18:54
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