September 26, 2005

Tomorrow.sg downtime

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By now, anyone who cares would have noticed that Tomorrow.sg was down for nearly 24hrs.

Tomorrow.sg is hosted in a co-location center and we have no physical access to the machine. So when the site went down, we tried doing a couple of remote reboots but they failed to do anything. Just as we were about to give up and resign ourselves to the fact that we might be dealing with a hardware failure, or worst, a harddisk failure, our hosting provider found the problem: Apparently, someone knocked the rack and the ethernet cable come loose >_<.

As high tech as we are, there is no accounting for clumsiness.

Rest assured we are doing our best to ensure this will not happen again. (hint: superglue <3)

So, we're back in business. Please carry on as usual and keep them submissions coming!

Submitted by jseng on September 26//5:48pm :: 4848 reads | trackback
Comments 18

i thought gahmen steps in.

Posted by nerdblogger on 27 September, 2005 - 12:09am

gahmen stepped in and tripped over the cable.

Posted by tinkertailor on 27 September, 2005 - 10:43am

hahaha tt's a really funny account. next thing you'll tell us monkeys are cycling to keep the power going. but hey thank you guys for giving us something to read everyday :)

Posted by observer* on 27 September, 2005 - 12:35am

No, dude. It's for real.

Posted by Mr Miyagi on 27 September, 2005 - 1:08am

I thought Tomorrow.sg is powered by pigeons ;)

Posted by calvinistguy on 27 September, 2005 - 2:04am

Tomorrow gets yanked.

News at 11.

:)

Posted by mb on 27 September, 2005 - 1:02am

Huh?
You mean it's reported in the news that this site was down ?

Posted by gnauhceey on 27 September, 2005 - 2:08am

I keep telling jems "Don't wear bell bottoms in the server room".

But jems, he no listen. He never listen to anybody one. What can you do?

** shrugs shoulders **

Posted by cowboycaleb on 27 September, 2005 - 2:16am

Try http://www.equinix.com/about/contactus/

ZERO down time...

Your Truly, hplanet

Posted by DEAD on 27 September, 2005 - 4:02am

so long it's back :)

Posted by spinnee on 27 September, 2005 - 8:03am

Yeh, I thought the editors were under investigation and the site was forced to close too...

The gahmen are abit paranoid these days...

Posted by nineaugust on 27 September, 2005 - 9:27am

Lol, so you finally believe Tomorrow.sg is not run by the gahmen!!!

Hoorayyyyyy!!!!

Posted by cowboycaleb on 27 September, 2005 - 10:42am

I think it is prudent to believe whatever we are told

"The animals hated Moses because he told tales and did no work, but some of them believed in Sugarcandy Mountain, and the pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that there was no such place"

Posted by visceral on 27 September, 2005 - 5:25pm

i got a question: is a .sg domain more subjectable to singapore law compare to a .com domain?

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 27 September, 2005 - 10:26am

Yes.

Posted by cowboycaleb on 27 September, 2005 - 10:41am

let's hope we still go tomorrow in sg and no need to have tomorrow in .com

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 27 September, 2005 - 11:10am

Tat happen to my company internet server too. internet was down, was busy troubleshooting until realised it's the cable came off when some worker was cleaning the aircon in the server room.

Posted by Uncle Simon* on 27 September, 2005 - 12:05pm

Should check layer by layer according to OSI model. physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, application. More often or not, its the bottom ones that screw up.

Posted by Huang* on 29 October, 2005 - 9:45am