If you have tried to access Postcrossing in the last 2 days, you might have been surprised to see that the site was down. And not only for a brief moment, but for almost 30 hours! This was probably the longest time Postcrossing was unavailable (we hated it too!).
But the good news is… we are back!
Unfortunately, our hosting provider had a serious technical problem that not only affected us, but also many other large websites. While they are still finishing fixing the issue, the worse seems to be over for us.
But, more important now, is that no data was lost and everything is resuming to where it was just before this outage. We do apologize for this unexpected blackout and we will be looking into ways to better protect ourselves from similar technical problems in the future.
Happy Postcrossing, everyone!
PS: Have you noticed we have already passed the 7 million postcards mark?! :D
44 comments so far
Problems occur from time to time even with the best technology... Don't worry, we have to wait for our postcards, we know/learn what patience means !
But yes, I missed Postcrossing a lot ! Thanks to everyone for your efforts !!
Have a happy week-end...
It was soooo scary. Glad we're back on the air.
I missed it too but I am happy that you are back - and yes, I realized that we have passed the 7 million postcards mark. It seems that it was just a little while ago when we all were happy that we had reached the 1 million mark. I think the postcrossers here are all very diligent and this is a wonderful thing. Thanks so much to Paulo and the team who cares about this site.
Glad to be back here...thanks Paulo and you team.
Yes that was the longest interruption ever! Scary stuff for sure...I was checking at least every half hour in my waking hours! I felt that empty feeling like way back when I quit smoking! I am addicted to Postcrossing and so happy it is back! Thankyou so much to all who worked to bring it back!
A, glad postcrossing is back and great work by you. B, Great work by the administrators and engineers, they have probably their worst easter "holiday" ever. So a big applause for them. C, We are living in a complex world and the more complex our systems get the more system-intrinsic failure potential they have. We should get used to it. (Malcolm Gladwell wrote a fantastic article about that.) D, I was right there when we hit 7 million. I actually had my screen showing me 6.999.999 postcards received! Should've made a screenshot.
Enjoy Easter, hopefully free of anymore technology troubles.
Greetings from Leipzig, Germany.
Thanks for posting the link to the news story. I had no idea that happened, and that article was interesting. I didn't know that's how it worked for you. :) I learn something new every day. Glad you're ok and nothing was lost. Whew! :)
Those were the 30 longest hours in my life - I'm addicted. Happy we are back!
Great that Postcrossing is back in the air again. I must admit that I've got addicted to Postcrossing. It's a great hobby. And I was a bit scared that I wouldn't be able to register the cards I knew would arrive today. But I was happy that I was able to register them right away.
It's fantastic that we now have passed the 7 million cards. Wow.
Happy Easter and Postcrossing to every one.
Greetings from Little Denmark.
I received 3 postcards all at once, and the site went down. Very glad to see you back, well done!
uff! the nightmare ended! :D
Very Happy you are back up and running again! I am addicted and had to try just about every hour. I had 2 postcards come to my mailbox during those 30 hours and I felt bad that I couldn't "receive" them right away.
:) I'm happy that everything is fixed now!! :)
I was afraid that the data were lost.
Thank you for keeping us updated! :]
I was worried too, so much so that I became a financial supporter as soon as the site came back up! Thought, maybe they need finances to purchase new servers - HA! Postcrossing is amazing and I'd hate to see it go down for good - Heaven forbid!!
IF WE KEEP TRYING,SOMETHING GOOD IS SURE TO HAPPEN! :）
Welcome back Postcrossing! While the website is offline, we had our meetup here in Taiwan. At least, postcrossing still with us on the internet and in the real life.
I thought postcrossing celebrate Good Friday... :(
There was no postman because of the holiday AND I could not write postcards ..
But now the Easter gift is made, post-crossing works again :)
Happy Easter to all!
Phew, I was getting withdrawal symptons ;-) Great that you're back 'on the air'!
I'm glad everything's all right now.
Welcome back!!
No, I didn't notice we passed the mark 0.0 Congratulations everyone ^^!
Welcome back!
After a few hours and many attempts I started to be scared, but I trusted you.
Congratulations to us for the 7 Million postcards! 9 of them are mine ahah
I was getting depressed and i was refreshing the website from 10 to 10 minutes. i guess im addicted. :( i need help. my boyfriend says that i need reabilitation like a support-group.
I'm glag the site is woring again!
happy postcrossing week!
I'm just happy that you guys are up and about again!
I hate that feeling... you try to get into a favorite website, and you get NOTHING! Is everything OK? Will it come back?? What if it doesn't????
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who was concerned about the site being down. Years ago, I was involved with an art-related site that went down and stayed down for six months. I checked the site's forum for the first six weeks, and was surprised to see that no one was in a hurry to get the site back up. After that, I never had anything to do with the site again, even after they were up and running.
I need to make a donation to help in situations like this. I never knew how much I like Postcrossing until it went down. Absence does make the heart grow fonder!
Thank you Paulo and Team for all your hard work. You have an absolutely amazing program that you can be proud of. Thank you and I am very happy to see you are back!
Something that I thought.. perhaps there was divine intervention. It was around the end of Maundy Thursday and the start of Good Friday here..
Well anyway, I am glad that PC is back :)
I am really glad you're back! :-D
Just shows how addicted many of us are!
I'm sure many more millions of postcrossing cards will be sent yet! :-)
Congrats! and I am so glad things are up and running! :)
BRAVISSIMI!!!! thank you....
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Glad to have postcrossing back without any damage. :) :) :)
30 hours seemed like 30 days. Glad to have you back! Postcrossing is my favorite site :)
So busy with the holiday I never noticed but I would be lost without Postcrossing so thank goodness it's fine now!! 7 MILLION - WOW! We all rock big time.
Nice work if you haven't lost any data!
Good job & welcome back! :)
When Postcrossing was down, I realized for the first time how addicted I have become to the website already after just four months! :) I'm really glad that the Postcrossing community is back in touch and that no data was lost. That would have been a nightmare!!
I'm happy that everything is nice now and we are back :)
Postcrossing is great, new way to cognition other cultures :D
The was one big scare. I hope the data is securely backed up somewhere :)
Welcome back postcrossing :)
I was lucky to be there at the 7 million!
We are so happy we didn't loose our beloved best hobby in the world! Thankyou so much to those who worked so hard to bring back our wonderful Postcrossing!! XOXO :P :P
It happened with some Facebook sites so was not surprised when I saw Postcrossing down.
GREAT!!!! :D
doas somebody know who sent/received the 7million postcard
Don't let it happen again. You don't know how much you need something until a Web site goes down. I started to panic. Maybe next time you can Tweet more about the status. No site is one thing, but no updates is nerve racking. As soon as my checking account is in the positive again, I will donate. I don't think I have the right to complain unless I have a vested interest.
Positive Note: 7 Million! Wow.
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