Apple’s .mac replacement, .me, has be frought with problems since the switchover that coincided with the launch of the iPhone 3G. The old .mac service was taken offline whilst the migration to .me took place, and was originally scheduled to be no more than a few hours. A day and a half later, and people [...]
Read MoreWordpress have released their native iPhone application, and it is now available in Apple’s App Store. It’s fairly basic right now, and it crashed on me whilst writing this post, but at least it saves a local copy and recovers it. It allows photo uploads from your library, or will take a photo using the [...]
Read MoreAmazon’s S3 outage yesterday lasted a total over 7 hours, and brought down SmugMug, Twitter’s avatar hosting, and crashed Twinkle - a Twitter application for the iPhone, as well as Youniverse’s image hosting. Youniverse uses Akamai as a CDN with S3 as the ‘origin server’, and is set with a TTL of 5 days. I [...]
Read MoreAmazon’s S3 service is having some major outages right now. This is the first major downtime I’ve seen from them, apart from an hour or so in February, and is rather frustrating because Youniverse uses S3 as its photo host, but Akamai as a CDN. Even though Akamai will cache for a period of time, [...]
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