June 11th, 2009
Toodledo service out because of storm
Toodledo , the popular collaborative to-do list service, is out of commission. A storm took out the data center where the Toodledo stores its database. The service notice says the following:
So, here’s the story. A big storm went through the city where our datacenter is located. The datacenter decided to proactively switch to generators. During the switch, something got screwed up, and the power went off for a few minutes. As (bad) luck would have it, this caused our database to get corrupted. We are currently working to bring it back online and restored from the live backup. The crack team at Rackspace is on the job. Thanks Rackspace! Unfortunately, the database is so large, that it will take some time to transfer and verify all the data. Hopefuly not more than a few hours. We know that this is very bad, and we apologize for any inconvience that this will cause. Please check the forums when we are back online for a full report.
Update: Its obviously taking longer than we expected and we are really sorry for that.
More information when it becomes available.
UPDATE:
Although Toodledo doesn’t say the location of their server, Dallas is my best guess give a traceroute. Severe thunderstorms are currenty pounding the area.
David Greenfield is the principal in STAnalytics. a global technology-marketing consultancy where he advises enterprises on emerging technologies. See David Greenfield's full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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