quikmaps — back up to speed
Apologies to everyone who’s quikmaps fun was disrupted this weekend. Unfortunately, the site was caught by file server issues at our web hosting company, Dreamhost. After fighting with their old machine all weekend (see the many status updates here), the Dreamhost folks finally tossed their old machine and installed a new one today, thus bringing quikmaps fully alive again.
Obviously, this is not the kind of service I expect from a web hosting company, but I think we have to give Dreamhost a bit of a break, since they are one of North America’s largest hosting providers, and by all accounts the issues of last weekend are not indicative of Dreamhost in general. We will assume that quikmaps will be more stable in the future…
In other news, quikmaps just passed 6500 maps, and recently appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Update, Tuesday, July 18, 2006. Dreamhost issues are still causing problems, rendering the site unavailable at this point. This time, it appears the database server is unresponsive due to a ’saturated switch’. Check back periodically for more information — I’m hoping this problem will be resolved reasonably soon…
