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More Growing Pains - BP Outage - My Apologies

Wednesday, July 08

Attention BiggerPockets Members and Visitors:

I want to apologize for the site outage this Wednesday evening.  I am never pleased with downtime, and this would have been noticed sooner had I not gone and taken the evening off (that'll teach me!). The site should NEVER go down unexpectedly, and it is up to us to make sure you've always got BP to turn to as your real estate network.

It looks like we're once again experiencing those growing pains that come with a rapidly growing website.  We're working on analyzing what upgrades we need to make to keep up with the traffic load, and should have these in place shortly.

Thanks for the understanding and for continuing to support BiggerPockets.  We appreciate that you spend your time with us.

Regards,

Joshua Dorkin

Comments

1. 

   Jim Wineinger Reply
   over 2 years ago

   It is impossible for one person to not take some time off, even if it just to sleep!!!!!!!!

   I am sure no one expects you to be here at all times, but let me say that you do a great job of keeping this site functional and working as it should for your members benefit.

   Downtime, although not wanted by any of us, is understandable and accepted (at least by me) because it is so few times for such a great site.

2. 

   Nick J. Reply
   over 2 years ago

   Not acceptable mister!

   j/k, when I got the 505 error thingy on my screen I was like, oh well no biggie, Josh will have it up and running again soon.

3. 

   Joshua Dorkin Reply
   over 2 years ago

   Thanks fellas!

4. 

   Account Closed Reply
   over 2 years ago

   I was totally disappointed. I expect so much more from BP. LOL!

   Glad you got the job done, Josh. Have a great day!

5. 

   Norm Chrostowski Reply
   over 2 years ago

   I WAS PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No actually I thought I had a computer problem...lol

6. 

   Dory Peters Reply
   over 2 years ago

   Have you considered adding some redundancy, load balancing, and checkpointing? That way if the primary fails, then the secondary can pick the ball up and keep on going.

7. 

   Joshua Dorkin Reply
   over 2 years ago

   Yes.

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