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Wordpress is one of the largest sites on the web now - I can't believe they have a single point of failure

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Could be an unpredicted cascading failure. 24x7 is very hard.

I am glad air-traffic control does not rely on Wordpress ;-)

If it was server storage related, then we don't mind helping them out =)

They use Amazon S3 for storage in the past, not sure if it is still valid for now.

Then I hope we can help them if given the opportunity.

The site is working so far. Thanks for the feedback, folks.

http://moolave.tk/

I have been in this situation with high profile sites before. When there is downtime that is very public like this incident, you get a flood of emails and calls from service providers offering to help. This can actually often work, a relationship I established with a particular hosting provider (who I introduced to numerous other people as well) started out during a downtime incident when an executive of the company sent an email. If you are a startup that offers services, I would recommend taking advantage of these opportunities to get new business (put on a good pitch at a time when the potential client is vulnerable).

Ironically, I am trying to go to your site to see what you do and am getting the following error:

  Error

  Request-URI Too Large

  The requested URL /... is too large to process.

And when I try to view http://moolave.tk/ in Firefox I just get a message saying:

This content cannot be displayed in a frame. To protect your security, the publisher of this content does not allow it to be displayed in a frame.

I also got NoScript's cross-site scripting filter kicking in which is never a good thing...

Thanks for the input. For some reason it works on Chrome and Firefox on my side. I will check and see what I find.

It works for me but seems to be a weird structure of a regular site hooking in a google sites frame which bootstraps a wix flash page which frames the actual site content.

Yes, we designed the website from the Wix Flash platform and published it on Google Sites. We still have to make some changes as the right-hand side is taking some space on high-resolution screens.

Thanks Jeff. It might have something to do with Google running slow (with Gmail and other applications having the same challenge). I will check and see what's causing it.

It could be one of many problems, but I checked a similar thread reporting the same issue; only this time the issue was addressed under Gmail (still Google)

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=35602...

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