Comments on: Revver and Pageflakes go dark for days http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/02/revver-and-pageflakes-go-dark-for-days/ Ramblings and tech news from the Pingdom team Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Artem Russakovskii http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/02/revver-and-pageflakes-go-dark-for-days/comment-page-1/#comment-314942 Artem Russakovskii Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:51:58 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=1639#comment-314942 Looks like Revver is down again. While they were up yesterday, their blog was still down, so still nobody could find out what had happened. My contact at Revver also confirmed it was a colo move gone wrong but I'm appalled. I've never seen an Internet company that relies 100% on the Internet to do its business treat its online presence that way. It's also shocking, considering their tech team is quite savvy and adept - their API was one of the first and best video APIs available. Artem http://beerpla.net http://twitter.com/ArtemR Looks like Revver is down again. While they were up yesterday, their blog was still down, so still nobody could find out what had happened.

My contact at Revver also confirmed it was a colo move gone wrong but I’m appalled. I’ve never seen an Internet company that relies 100% on the Internet to do its business treat its online presence that way. It’s also shocking, considering their tech team is quite savvy and adept – their API was one of the first and best video APIs available.

Artem
http://beerpla.net
http://twitter.com/ArtemR

]]> By: down again http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/02/revver-and-pageflakes-go-dark-for-days/comment-page-1/#comment-314937 down again Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:54:12 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=1639#comment-314937 it looks like pageflakes is down again. at least for me. i agree wholeheartedly with this article, especially about user communication. even a vague "we'll be back soon" would be a huge step. every time pageflakes goes down (especially without any warning or communcation of how long it will last) i go to my backup rss aggregators, netvibes or my.yahoo. which i'm sure a lot of users do. its basically a free advertisement for all their competitors. they need to get it together. it looks like pageflakes is down again. at least for me.

i agree wholeheartedly with this article, especially about user communication. even a vague “we’ll be back soon” would be a huge step.

every time pageflakes goes down (especially without any warning or communcation of how long it will last) i go to my backup rss aggregators, netvibes or my.yahoo. which i’m sure a lot of users do. its basically a free advertisement for all their competitors. they need to get it together.

]]> By: vince http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/02/revver-and-pageflakes-go-dark-for-days/comment-page-1/#comment-314919 vince Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:45:46 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=1639#comment-314919 netvibes -never a problem, use it since early beta :) netvibes -never a problem, use it since early beta :)

]]> By: Intosh http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/02/revver-and-pageflakes-go-dark-for-days/comment-page-1/#comment-314874 Intosh Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:30:28 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=1639#comment-314874 I think I need to seriously consider and prepare my "migration" to another service. As Phil stated in his excellent blog article, the service is becoming more and more unreliable and users are kept in the dark of what's going on. My Pageflakes homepage has become an important service for me. I don't want to find out tomorrow that it's been shutdown for good and that I don't have a backup service. It's a shame. Pageflakes is an excellent service. I've tried all its competitors and found they were missing widgets that I've grown accustomed to with Pageflakes. I think I need to seriously consider and prepare my “migration” to another service. As Phil stated in his excellent blog article, the service is becoming more and more unreliable and users are kept in the dark of what’s going on.

My Pageflakes homepage has become an important service for me. I don’t want to find out tomorrow that it’s been shutdown for good and that I don’t have a backup service.

It’s a shame. Pageflakes is an excellent service. I’ve tried all its competitors and found they were missing widgets that I’ve grown accustomed to with Pageflakes.

]]> By: Sean http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/02/revver-and-pageflakes-go-dark-for-days/comment-page-1/#comment-314857 Sean Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:57:21 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=1639#comment-314857 Yeah this was a pretty monumental failure for a service such as Pageflakes, which has served as my homepage for several years now. They're just lucky the outage happened mostly over a weekend, but even with that I can very close to switching to NetVibes. Unfortunately I may still end up doing that just to be on the safe side... I don't use Revver, but for a niche video site to fail so badly they're really blowing it big time. There's already so much competition in that space with almost zero differentiators between the players, it's so easy to switch and never look back. At least the Pageflakes/Netvibes of the world are a rarer breed. Yeah this was a pretty monumental failure for a service such as Pageflakes, which has served as my homepage for several years now. They’re just lucky the outage happened mostly over a weekend, but even with that I can very close to switching to NetVibes. Unfortunately I may still end up doing that just to be on the safe side…

I don’t use Revver, but for a niche video site to fail so badly they’re really blowing it big time. There’s already so much competition in that space with almost zero differentiators between the players, it’s so easy to switch and never look back. At least the Pageflakes/Netvibes of the world are a rarer breed.

]]> By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » beginning of February blogging ‘09 http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/02/revver-and-pageflakes-go-dark-for-days/comment-page-1/#comment-314851 Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » beginning of February blogging ‘09 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:46:51 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=1639#comment-314851 [...] Ouch - our customer GTCHannel.com relies upon Revver for their video.  But its been down for a while. [...] [...] Ouch – our customer GTCHannel.com relies upon Revver for their video.  But its been down for a while. [...]

]]> By: Jim Bob http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/02/revver-and-pageflakes-go-dark-for-days/comment-page-1/#comment-314846 Jim Bob Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:37:57 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=1639#comment-314846 "There doesn’t appear to have been any warnings to the users that the sites would go offline," It's called "a crash", and you cannot predict when it's going to happen. “There doesn’t appear to have been any warnings to the users that the sites would go offline,”

It’s called “a crash”, and you cannot predict when it’s going to happen.

]]> By: dudeguy http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/02/revver-and-pageflakes-go-dark-for-days/comment-page-1/#comment-314844 dudeguy Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:14:53 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=1639#comment-314844 It's ok to have a comment. It’s ok to have a comment.

]]> By: Pingdom http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/02/revver-and-pageflakes-go-dark-for-days/comment-page-1/#comment-314837 Pingdom Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:25:33 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=1639#comment-314837 @Phil: Thanks for the tip. We checked the monitoring data for the exact time the Pageflakes site came back and updated the post. Revver still isn't responding, though. @Phil: Thanks for the tip. We checked the monitoring data for the exact time the Pageflakes site came back and updated the post.

Revver still isn’t responding, though.

]]> By: Phil Bradley http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/02/revver-and-pageflakes-go-dark-for-days/comment-page-1/#comment-314822 Phil Bradley Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:29:01 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=1639#comment-314822 Pageflakes is back up again. No idea for how long, not comments in their weblog, forums or press releases. Grab your content and copy it elsewhere while you have time! Who knows how much longer it's going to be up? Pageflakes is back up again. No idea for how long, not comments in their weblog, forums or press releases. Grab your content and copy it elsewhere while you have time! Who knows how much longer it’s going to be up?

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