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A Day of Outages: Amazon, Twitter, Disqus, WinExtra

Today must be one of those days on the net (and it’s not even Friday the 13th yet – that’s next Friday!).

Amazon is still recovering from a large, international outage, Twitter is down and out (like that’s something new – but even istwitterdown.com is down right now, too), Disqus suffered some outages last night, and even my friend Steven Hodson’s WinExtra is offline right now.

I gather this is a good reminder about how cloud computing is prone to suffer these kinds of outages etc. etc. but really, it’s also a good reminder that while we tend to write and talk a lot about the outward, consumer facing side of the web, we do tend to ignore the plumbing behind it all – until it breaks.

I always feel like I’m a control freak when I want to host everything on my own site, but I did give in and install Disqus for comments – the convenience for my readers and for myself just outweighed the cost of a potential problem with Disqus. Even if they shut down at some point, I just turn on the old comment system again and move on.

But then, my email is exclusively on Gmail – and I don’t make backups of it, at all…

thanks a lot bud LOL

Apologies, Frederic. We have some more info here.

[...] a pretty expensive issue. After Twitter, Plurk, Disqus, The Planet or other suffering outages lately, it’s like a new [...]

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Is it paprika over the left shoulder & burp 3 times or walk backwards at 13:00? No wait… salt over the right shoulder and spin left breaking mirror? no wait… one of those is a hiccup remedy…

Hehe, yeah same here. If DISQUS goes bye-bye, move to Intense Debate. If it goes bye-bye, turn on my built-in/native comment system and install SezWho. Just move on as you said.

Lol, I dn't make backups of my gmail too.. haha.

But so far, I'm at ease. A Web2.0 service with no problems like downtime is scary, really.

Thanks
Disqus Rocks ! ! !

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disqus is the … Gorilla

It happens a few times. But don't get dsicouraged. Continue with life.

thanks too daniel!

Sounds great! And I like Disqus….

i use disqus on all my blogs and it works great

Hi! thanks a lot bud LOL

need a backup for downtime situations. with a backup you can save your comments from goes down too.

need a backup for downtime situations. with a backup you can save your comments from goes down too.

need a backup for downtime situations. with a backup you can save your comments from goes down too.

way too strange isnt it?

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Disqus Rocks ! ! !

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Great explaining

Stuff happens from time to time, brush it off and get back to work

disqus is the best commenting system

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nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now
keep it up

nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now
keep it up

I didn't know the June 6 had some many service down. Did you guy felt one of your eyes disabled?

Sounds great ! And I like disqus….

Disqus is a great commenting system. It makes my life a heck of a lot easier as a webmaster without having to fuss too much about approvals

Great post! I've bookmarked your blog. Hope we can swap links.

Why can't I open your rss feed? No post is showing.

Best Regards!

Ginj

the Disqus plugin is really cool. I like it

wow..always backup all of your data dud! we can not prediction when the day will outages

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Thanks for the post..What more can I say!!

Thanks for the great reference post.

DISQUS allows the blogger to have greater control with comments. It's one of hte useful tools that any blogger can have.

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Great post. I started using twitter and I can't seem to stop, its a great tool for communication with your blog users. Feel free to follow me http://www.twitter.com/mattwaterman

Great information! thank you

i luv your blog , you are on my rss reader now

like this. i bookmarked you already!

It's the threading of comments that makes DisQus a winner for me………….. : )

lol, even istwitterdown.com was down. That is kinda ironic.

not Gorilla but its rock and more popular now

thanks a lot to Disqus a learned so many things about it

Great artilce, diqus is the biggest among them all, IMHO! I like their style in commenting blogs.

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I agree disgus is great

You really had great insights, well for me if disqus goes down, its fine, I'll just turn back to old commenting system.. I guess there's no problem with deleted comments.. most people will comeback and leave comments anyway.

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disqus will never down, they have a solid team on how to manage it

Have to say I do agree. Things like this just are what they are.

wow. Disqus is also good.. Thanks for sharing.. I am new in the discuss..

Disqus is the best! =)

Same with me, I don't keep back ups for my comments, if it disqus goes down (far from happening), I might turn to intense debate..

So why these it happens..Try to use the safe items hereafter..Try to migrate from not working sites..

Honestly disqus is the best. I really like it

Nothing is better than disqus commenting system.. it really dominates big time.!!

DISQUS allows the blogger to have greater control with comments. It’s one of the useful tools that any blogger can have.