30/05/2007 - Wednesday

Zooomr has been on the road to launching their new Mark III version. It has been a very rocky road with a previous attempt failing and the second attempt taking longer than expected. The road looked straight towards the end with Mark III being launched and things working fine. For around 15 minutes that is. Then they suffered a server crash which took out the database. Luckily they had very recent backups and the photos are all intact, but without the database there's no way of actually having a working website.

Earlier today they posted a blog post saying that they were working on getting a new server to replace the failed one so that things could get back online. There are many apologies in the blog post yet I feel that none are needed. I know myself how hard it can be to get a complex website out on time, especially if there is only one guy doing the coding. I've also watched Kris and Thomas while they've been working and I know how passionate the guys are about getting everything sorted out and working.

Good luck to both of them, they've got a lot of support from their users, and also support from Sun Microsystems, so hopefully they can get it all sorted soon and then they can relax and unwind a little!