December 2, 2009
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Brief DNS outage
The site was briefly down early this morning, due to a Domain Name System outage. We've been maxing out our connection between Xanga's network facility and our network provider - and due to technical reasons, when our connection gets maxed out... that causes DNS issues.
We were up early this morning and were able to resolve the issue quickly. We've increased the size of our connection and also taken other technical measures to make sure we get alerts and that any DNS outages get resolved quickly.
We'll keep you posted on this! Just wanted to explain what happened this morning, in case any of you guys were up around 8 am EST...
Comments (66)
i was wondering why i couldn't get on the site. xanga is my coffee in the morning
I almost died. :O
I noticed, but glad things are OK now
glad you continue to be able to supply me favorite addiction.
just glad its back
I appreciate the explanation
I was up
Thanks for fixing it quickly
I hate having to deal with DNS issues. But not as much as virus.
Dear Team,
Didn't see an outage this a.m., but I experienced the one a few evenings ago. Good thing you're fixing them quickly. I got a couple of messages this morning afraid that Xanga was going out of business!
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
thanks for all you do.
So did all of the lifeboat messages finally make you decide to post something about it? Interesting.
I was wondering what was going on! Thanks for explaining.
I'm glad that's all it was!
Cool thanks for the update, I was worried I had to blog else well because of the messages I recieved.
This would explain the DNS outage last week, too, then?
That's a good thing, sort of, yes? Doesn't that mean there's been more traffic to the site?
Is that what happened on thanksgiving? I thought y'all pulled the plug without telling anyone which would honestly be the worst way to shut down.
Yeah, this happened around Black Friday too. Kinda thought there'd be word about that one since it was out for a pretty long time.
Anyways, good to see it's being fixed.
Thank you for the explanation. It's good to hear from you guys.
Do you have any idea how addiction works when you cut people off of their needed fix? HUH do ya???
Regards the Thanksgiving-Day 8-hour unavailability(at least in the Middle East). I searched in vain for any 'lighthouse' independent and operative site which could explain the situation. Is there, in fact, any way to know, real-time, whether your people are having issues? jsolberg/tel aviv
Thanks for the speedy fix - we need our Xanga available at a moment's notice!
Thanks for the good work guys... wonderful job.
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LonelyPoet
Thanks for letting us know!
No, I wasn't up at 5am PST but I know Xanga was dead for nearly 10 hours over the 5 day (schools at least) T-Day break last week.
i was up and on... thanks for letting us know
Thank you - I do appreciate the update.
Experienced it a few days ago, once.
but as compared to other blogsites, this is considered nothing!
Is this the same thing that happened around Thanksgiving?
Great. Thanks for fixing it. But know that the Internet has no 'morning' or 'evening'. It's operating time zones, I believe xanga is, too. I'm living outside the US, and was suffocating, because xanga was not working in the evening, in my free time!
Of course no doubt its a awesome site.I like one thing of xanga team most that they follow up their customers very efficiently.
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Good thing I overslept this morning
thanks for fixing it!! i actually am in CST. and i was up at 7 CST. but i didn't get on until 15 minutes later. good thing i heard about this first, though. thanks again!!
connections maxed out, huh? that is a good thing....time for upgrades...oh yeah...
Glad it's resolved now!
I was not around when Xanga went down but glad everything is working again.
Some people uses these DNS outages to create fears that Xanga is at the end of its life and use it to pull people to other social networking sites.
@Zeal4living -
So true.
I asked a simple and pertinent question in my previous comment. Two possible answers: "No, what you request is not practical, for technical reasons you probably wouldn't understand." or, conversely: "Yes, the status-report site is at xxxxx." I would sincerely like an answer...
I'm guessing that's what happened Thanksgiving too; Xanga is traditionally my "me time" when I take a little break from all the family time.
We need a way to report an inappropriate user who comments with
defamatory slander and excessive swearing, WITHOUT reporting the
original poster's blog.
e.g.
@explosive -
YES IT FUCKING IS YOU FUCKING MORON. LEARN SOME FUCKING HISTORY COCK SUCKER.Posted 12/7/2009 7:52 PM by oohtique - reply
I still can't upload photos.
Thanks for guiding us.
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My ISP's DNS Server has been down for the past 2 days! The only websites I can access is xanga.com and a handful of others. Not even google or yahoo. Time Warner sucks ass.
Why haven't I rec'd any Xanga Digest Subscription e-mails in the last 3 days?
thanks for clearing it up !
I love how on any other social networking site you see a whole bunch of comments bashing the shit out of the website owners haha and Xangans are just like "Oh hey okay thanks, love you" hahaha, I think you guys are doing something write.
Hi, i've been using xanga for a quite sometime right now, and as a member i want to change and make a new account, however is being unable to do so.
Everytime i type in an available username, a correct password, date of
birth and the security code digits and alphabets as well as accepts
xanga's terms and conditions, and clicks on register, the same page
opens up saying, "An error has occoured". I've tried several
times. I could use some help on this one. I dont think i did or typed anything wrong there are i did the right procedures. HELP!
Excellent site, keep up the good work. I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,
A definite great read…
anti keylogger
i didn't even feel this effect, thanks for the heads up anyways
is this why i cant load or watch videos on xanga. all i can see or load are blanks boxes! its driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!! please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why does my rss page look like a bunch of code now? Is this related or a new problem?
Why do we not get any communication any more from the Xanga Team?
hi diilllllll
hi
I would have completely flipped out....if I had been online this morning.
I wasn't up, but thanks for fixing it!
hey
it's been almost 3 months and you guys haven't posted anything new. -_-
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I'm just seeing this. My site has been acting up all day - still is, and I wonder if this is the reason?
Kathi
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