Suspension of Operations
Pingie.com has suspended operations to refocus our attention to our core features.
Effective today, all service will be interrupted until further notice.
That being said, all user data has been purged and we are beginning to form a new product for relaunch.
Database Troubles Continue
Yesterday morning our webhost suffered a power outage that caused our servers to “hard reset”. Due to the sudden shut down and multiple reboots our databases were corrupted.
We have our developer reviewing the backups to assess the damage and we will have something to report hopefully later today or tomorrow morning.
Due to the complexity of our system a simple backup roll back is not possible as all databases need to be rebuilt
We understand the value of Pingie in your life and trust us, we are doing all we can to fix the problem.
Database Issues - UPDATED
We are having issues with our database server and hope to have them resolved soon.
All issues have been resolved!
Adding Capacity :)
We are expanding again - and its major! Because of our rapidly growing user base over the next 90 days we are adding massive processing power (and our capacity before was NOTHING to laugh at) additional connectivity and more SMS capacity as we relocate to our new data center.
This personally is a very exciting move for me and look forward to all the new features this will allow us to roll out!
Craigslist Update
Just wanted to drop a quick line that in addition to Twitter being fully supported, Craigslist is now fully supported too.
We would like to thank all the folks over at Craigslist for working with us to provide the most seamless and best experience for our users.
If you notice any oddities with any feeds don’t hesitate to contact us.
We *Heart* Twitter (Supported Again!)
As a followup to a previous blog post, We can move Twitter back to the supported column. We worked closely with the engineers in Twitter land and they have really helped us make sure you have the best Twitter experience on Pingie.
We hope you will be happy with the results!
De(Craigs)listed
Unfortunately we have to add Craigslist to the unsupported list.
Pingie has hit a roadblock accessing Craigslist RSS feeds due to it’s popularity. Have no fear though! We have reached out to the fine, kind, wonderful, (did I forget to mention beautiful) folks at Craigslist to come up with some kind of agreeable solution to fix this problem. We are working very hard to fix this issue and will update the blog when we have more to report.
All the best and keep Pinging!
-dan
Craigslist Terms of Use (For reference)
Twitterpated!
Well it seems that Twitter and Pingie aren’t playing nicely. Don’t get us wrong, we LOVE Twitter and are working quickly to resolve our issues.
For the time being I’m putting Twitter RSS feeds in the “unsupported” category. But I have a team of hard working monkeys banging on typewriters trying to solve the issues.
SMS Down
There is a problem with our SMS sending mechanism. We hope to restore service soon.
Update: Now online!
Pingie Offline - NOW ONLINE
Pingie is offline now for some emergency maintenance. We expect all systems to be running normally in a few hours.
Update: Pingie is now ONLINE.
