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Our server crashed for almost 12 hours yesterday. Here's why.
What you might have seen yesterday if you navigated to The Tyee (on your old Commodore64, perhaps).
Yesterday the server company that hosts The Tyee had a major outage caused by a small electrical explosion in downtown Vancouver.
That meant that if you tried to view The Tyee -- be it our website, our mobile site, our mobile app or our political blog, The Hook -- your browser would have told you that our site was unavailable. In addition, if you were trying to email us or if you were expecting an email from us, neither would have succeeded.
Our server company has assured us this will not happen again and were surprised their redundant failsafe systems did not prevent the outage in the first place.
What did not crash was our sense of humour and our Twitter feed, which proclaimed:
"In support of the SOPA blackout, The Tyee has crashed. So there! (Okay...it was an accident. We'll be back online soon!)"
While we're sympathetic to the SOPA protest, which involved high-profile sites like Wikipedia "going dark" for 24 hours yesterday, we categorically deny blowing anything up in support of the cause.
Seriously, though, our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. ![[Tyee]](http://thetyee.cachefly.net/ui/img/ico_fishie.png){kind=small}
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freewilly
1 year ago
Internet ghosts
Weird but I was on your site yesterday, or was I? Ive seen some strange things happen myself of late. I have been accessing a certain site with a .ca name, odd thing is that the site doesnt have a .ca name its a .com. So whatsup with that? Something has automatically directed me to the correct site, yet there is no such site registered. Last year a particular lodge in our area had their site revamped and hosted on a different server, in Victoria. However everyone in our town or most of us, only see the old site, yet anyone living outside of our town sees the new one. As I said I was on your site yesterday, maybe it was a cached version of the Tyee?
David Beers
1 year ago
freewilly
The server went down in the early afternoon. Perhaps you were on before then?
Okanagan Orchardist
1 year ago
So was I, freewilly...
Logged on, posted a comment on an old article, which came up as having been accepted and is there today. I didn't, of course, see the new articles that were published just today.
Fiat lux
1 year ago
Such accidents can not happen
Such accidents can not happen only in the minds of environmental terrorists who are trying to sabotage all growth and development.
Just ask the PM.
Ed Deak.
Granville
1 year ago
It is a small reminder that without electricity and water...
...we would be set back 200 years in time very quickly. Losing the Tyee is nothing compared to a real power outage. Losing Wikipedia was interesting too, but losing the full shelves at the grocery store would be more of a shock.
Gabe
1 year ago
Whoops!
:)
Sally Bowles
1 year ago
Glad you're back on.
Missed you.
uucluelet
1 year ago
Hilarious!
Thanks for the humour. Go SOPA. We missed you.