Reasons Tumblr went down

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by jasonshen • 16 years ago

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DanielRibeiro• 16 years ago

This one could, sadly, be true: WikiLeaks was hosted here

maukdaddy• 16 years ago

Cute doesn't cut it when people are relying on your business. I sure hope no SaaS vendors take this approach.

elithrar• 16 years ago

The major downtime sucked, and the minor hiccups still continue to suck. But I think we also need to realise it's free. It doesn't excuse the lack of communication, but lofty expectations of uptime for a service that's offered freely seem asinine.

kmfrk2• 16 years ago

On a site like Hacker News, we judge Tumblr both from a consumer point of view, but also from a start-up point of view. And from the latter, this instability is a really big problem.

InclinedPlane• 16 years ago

Just because you're giving away a service for free doesn't mean you should take QoS lightly. Nobody would say that complaints about google search going down were asinine. Same for local broadcast tv service. Or twitter. Or youtube.

If your business is providing hosting for content or providing a service that is expected to be ubiquitously available then QoS is a significant part of your business whether your service is nominally free or not.

Edit: Whether your revenue comes from users or from advertisers the reliability and quality of your service matters. If your userbase decides to abandon you then you are screwed regardless of whether they are your customers or your product.

anto1ne• 16 years ago

Downtime is ok, shit happens. to everyone. But availability issues which are going on for 6 weeks now (still major IMO), is it? I can't think of any technical problem that would take 6 weeks to solve. And being tumblr, attracting the best system admins, with all clouds resources available today..

kmfrk2• 16 years ago

It's like Tumblr are trying to prove some kind of point with the insane downtime.

jfm3• 16 years ago

"Doing bong rips of salvia with Miley Cyrus"

There's no excuse for downtime, but if there were, this would certainly be one.

sami_b• 16 years ago

"Gone for lunch, be back in 10"

Oh OK, I'll wait...gone.

base• 16 years ago

funny this guy has more sites like this http://reasonstumblrwentdown.com/

ahemphill3• 16 years ago

Same app, different path. (I couldn't decide on the morning that I whipped this up.)

igorgue• 16 years ago

You (and certainly I) wish to have the amount of traffic [1] Tumblr has, to put it simple, this is an awesome problem to have :-)

With that being said, they didn't take it lightly:

"know that this is absolutely unacceptable to our team, and unacceptable for a platform determined to be the best place in the world for your creative expression" [2]

I mean, what else can they say? Refund the customer's money? They've already done that.

[1] http://www.quantcast.com/profile/trafficGraph?wunit=wtpub%3A...

[2] http://staff.tumblr.com/post/2127872280/downtime

ahemphill3• 16 years ago

As the creator of this site, I agree. It's all intended in good fun.

ahemphill3• 16 years ago

I created this, and it might be a good time to mention that I'm always looking for new opportunities. I'm a well-rounded front-end developer with a sense of humor. ;)

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