06-01-2008, 09:47 AM | #1 |
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Conspiracy not the cause of TeleRead's temporary outage
Many of our MobileRead faithful are also fans of the TeleRead blog because they do a fantastic job over there at covering e-book news and fighting the good fight to communicate the impact of DRM issues and format dispersion. You may have heard of the phrase "Tower of eBabel" which was coined by TeleRead's David Rothman.
At any rate, some of you have probably already noticed that you haven't been able to get to the site for a bit. Robert Nagle has contacted me to share that the temporary outage is due to a fire at their hosting service, and they are currently working on their recovery. They are hoping to have the site back up today, but even if it takes a while longer you can be confident they will be back. Our best wishes go out to David, Robert and the whole team over at TeleRead for a speedy site recovery. |
06-01-2008, 09:52 AM | #2 |
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As a regular peruser of the site, my best wishes go out to them too,
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06-01-2008, 10:22 AM | #3 |
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Thanks, Bob and everyone else at MR! We appreciate the help and kind words. Alas, when I checked just now, the TeleRead site was still down. Needless to say, Robert Nagle and I are going to think very seriously about changing to a different hosting service. Here's to redundancy! The good news is that our data is safe, just not reachable now. - David
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06-01-2008, 12:48 PM | #4 |
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It seems Howard Forums has the same problem.
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06-01-2008, 05:26 PM | #5 |
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Best wishes to Teleread for a quick recovery. And thanks, Bob, for letting us know what was up.
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ThePlanet, which is the datacenter for many dedicated hosters and resellers (including David's), had a major power outage yesterday and today.
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06-01-2008, 09:41 PM | #7 |
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http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/a...or_outage.html
They are prevented from turning power back on because of fire marshall. Frankly, the ETA looks bleak. We could end up waiting another 24 hours to go online again. We are just one of many customers at our hosting service, and the hosting service is just one of thousands waiting to get back up. I suspect this affects a lot of hosting services. David R. reports lots of library sites down. for a rant about fire departments by another disgruntled customer, see this http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl...5&cid=23619515 Last edited by rjnagle; 06-01-2008 at 09:47 PM. |
06-01-2008, 10:58 PM | #8 |
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i have a friend hosting at theplanet and he says the sites are starting to come back online.
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06-02-2008, 12:53 PM | #9 |
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ETA Tuesday
FYI, our hosting service says that our server is one of the ones which needs to be relocated. So I expect that Teleread won't be up until Tuesday.
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06-02-2008, 02:16 PM | #10 |
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There are a few servers down there with that problem. I frequent Atari Age and, apparently, it's on that same floor. I wonder where this happened, exactly. I live in Houston.
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06-03-2008, 12:12 PM | #11 |
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Update: Tue late morning. I had limited service restored, but the server with Teleread is totally unavailable. ThePlanet and our hosting service (webfaction) has given us the runaround.
It's now technically possible to redirect the domain to a holder page, but David and I decided not to do this because we felt the site could come online any hour. We may have to reexamine that decision if the site doesn't come online by this afternoon. |
06-03-2008, 02:48 PM | #12 |
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GPSPassion, one of the sites I write for, came back up at 6:30 am EST June 2.
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