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Donate to get a blog design or hosting!
October 7, 2008 by Emily
Around the Web,News
It’s the last day of the Boobiethon and we want them to reach their goal, so we’ve donated some items to help them get there!
The first is a custom blog design for WordPress, Blogger of TypePad. You must donate $250 dollars or more to win this, but it’s completely tax deductible, so in the end you are getting a new blog design for free and you get to donate to a great cause.
The second prize is a year of hosting. You’ll get our Mini Package which is more than enough space and bandwidth for a personal blog. If you don’t already have a blog, we’ll install WordPress on your new account for free! To win this, you must donate $75 or more.
Read more about the prizes here or just go and donate already!! Even if you don’t want to spring for those prizes please consider donating if haven’t already. It’s the last day, so even just $10 or $20 can go a long way to helping them reach their goal.
UPDATE: The boobiethon is now over. Thanks for those who donated!
1 commentAvailability Update
September 4, 2008 by Emily
News
Designer Availability Update: Just wanted to make a quick announcement that both Vicki and Shaz are back from their summer breaks and are ready to start working on new projects right now. Please contact us ASAP to get in line with either of them as spots will start filling up fast!
The rest of us are still taking new projects for fall as well and we recommend getting in line soon if you want a project done this year since we can all only take a limited number of projects before the holiday break.
Notice to Hosting Customers – Server Issues
May 23, 2008 by Emily
News
UPDATE: The server is back up!
The data center where the server is hosted is currently having issues, which is why the server is down. It is being worked on and should be back up soon. I’ll update here again if there’s more news.
Here’s the official update:
At approximately 8 A.M. EST a segment of our data center experienced a power outage. Shortly after that we realized the city had experienced a power outage as well which attributed to the loss we saw in the NOC. We immediately went into generator power and we are still currently running on generator.
What happens when there is power loss is that we immediately go into UPS for a few minutes meanwhile the generator powers up. The UPS ensures no service disruption meanwhile the generator turns on. This happened normally but approximately 40% of the servers tripped during this process. Power loss and going into UPS followed by generator power has happened a few times in the past. But we have never experienced what has happened today – the power surge during this outage was extremely high.
We are meeting with our electrical engineers as we speak to analyze the situation to learn exactly what happened. We still have the data center running on generator as the power in the city could still be unstable and we do not want to risk any further outages. As many of you know these kind of issues do not happen often and we are taking this incident very seriously. The data center is equipped with a high level of UPS and generators are in place to ensure maximum uptime. We apologize for the inconveniences as we know this has effected a lot of you and your clients. We will ensure we find out in detail what happened, resolve it completely and put measures in place so it doesn’t repeat again.
