Digg is down for maintenance, let’s see how long it takes them to bring the site back up. The title bar actually reads (out of service). I have actually been really impressed at the uptime that Digg has been able to maintain during the amazing path to web 2.0 stardom.
With the amount of traffic they receive, it will be interesting to see how long it takes them to recover. While it’s possible they are doing server maintenance, this is usually done without bringing down a site, especially one as popular as Digg.
In the end, Digg came back online about an hour and a half after going down, then went down about two minutes later again. After checking the blogsphere, some other bloggers have noticed this, and are starting to blog about the outage. I love the Internet and web sites alike, and I honestly am starting to find the news and television pretty much useless in a day in age where I can find out what is happening this very second on the Internet, however, on the plus side for television, when was the last time that you tuned on the TV to watch the news, and had CNN go down for a few hours?
Digg seems to finally be stable and back up. The outage lasted over 2 and a half hours. Oh no wait correction, its back down…
So Digg finally got its act together this morning. Kevin Rose blogged over at the Digg blog that they are planning on no more Digg outages by having a disaster recovery site set up for Digg, which will allow them to make updates to Digg without interruptions.
Update at 11:45 PM CST: Digg goes back down… who knows at this point what has gone wrong.
Update at 10:10 PM CST: Digg is back up! I will be interested to find out what happened!
Update at 9:09 PM CST: Digg goes back down! Ouch, what could possibly be going on at the Digg power plant? Downtime is nearly approaching two hours.
Update at 9:05PM CST: Digg is back up! The little guy with the shovel wins!
Update at 8:23 PM CST: Digg has been down now for nearly an hour. It was noticed at 7:30 PM CST. Wonder what has happened. There were no signs of an update occurring tonight. Hopefully the Digg man will pick up his shovel. There is an army of Kevin Rose Diggnation people getting antsy!
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Digg Preps Disaster Recovery Site
Digg is preparing a disaster recovery data center that will allow the company’s IT team to quickly restore its web site.