Entrecard data center was on fire
Posted on 06. Jun, 2008 by dimaks in Blogging
I mean, real life fire.
I was advised by Jaypee to sign up for Entrecard, (a blogging network site where you create your 125×125 pixel graphic business card for rotation across the Entrecard community) a couple of days ago and have it running in my blog site for added exposure. After being convinced, I decided to access the site and attempted to sign up for an account. Upon entering all the data required by the registration form, this is what I got:
Serious error
We have a bug in our software, an automatic report has been sent to our developers and more whips are being applied as we speak. We apologise for the inconvenience. (Source: Google cache)
I did the attempts for several times, and even asked Jaypee to sign up on my behalf but still nothing happened. Our suspects were, cookies setting or maybe our browsers. I then tried Internet Explorer; the same result. Only to know this morning, or maybe I was the only late-informed being for this matter, that there was a fire at Entrecard’s data center.
There was a fire at our datacenter resulting in the failure of some of our systems, our database server appears to be offline still, we’re working on it and we’re really sorry about the issues at this time. more information arriving shortly.
Update: The outage is pretty serious, you can read more about the datacenter fire at ThePlanet forums. They’ve got teams of people there and they’re working through the night. We have no ETA at this time, very sorry.
So, there you have it! To those of you who have been trying to sign up for an account and experienced the same, don’t fret, keep in tune and hopefully the system will be back into full operation soon.
My avatar is ready an waiting!
And by the way, for reference, this site gives very good overview of Entrecard. And also here.
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richard
Jun 6th, 2008
di ko na ina-update yung entrecard account ko. nahahassle ako, ewan.. hehe
kuri
Jun 7th, 2008
thanks for dropping by pare.i just added u in my list.
K
Jun 8th, 2008
I dropped my e-card – I didn’t find it very useful to my blogging. I mean I am not ‘community-group online’ active.
dimaks
Jun 8th, 2008
richard,
i guess its for the community driven/traffic concious bloggers or i might be wrong
kuri,
you are welcome man! added you too.. happy blogging!
K,
after all you got lots of readers already hehe.
well as far as i know, it’s geared towards getting more hits and traffic.. so if you’re not that concious of the thing then entrecard is not a big issue for you
Wil
Jun 8th, 2008
I guess Entrecard didn’t have backup servers at a different location.
dimaks
Jun 8th, 2008
Wil,
that looks like it ..i can’t get it why their admin was not able to forsee events like this.
Micamyx
Jun 8th, 2008
I tried signing up for entrecard a month ago and experienced the same thing. I didn’t bother to sign up again. I’m just pissed that time LOL
manilenya
Jun 8th, 2008
hey! one week ng up ang ang Entrecards ha
teka hanapin ko yung widget mo 
dimaks
Jun 8th, 2008
manilenya,
watshapening! lol.
huh, that’s weird, i tried signing up again a few hours ago and the same error messages i got. my widget? i believe, i didn’t even get to sign up for an account
Zaty
Jun 11th, 2008
that’s pretty freaky… 0_o