Sunday, July 23, 2006

Website down due to London datacenter failure

The One Million Masterpiece has been down since around 1pm GMT today because of a massive datacentre failure in London. At the time of writing (7:30 pm GMT) the site is still off-line.

Obviously this is a very serious situation and questions will be raised, however at present the main priority is getting the site back online. This is the latest in a series of third party problems that have affected site since its launch 10 days ago. Luckily this particular problem has coincided with a lull in promotional activity before we step up a gear next week, however we’re still looking at the loss of a large number of sign-ups and donations to charity.


UPDATE

Litterally as I was posting this blog I took a call from Pierce who confirmed that the site was back online at 7:45pm GMT. We're now awaiting the official report from Level3 as to the exact cause of the failure.

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