techcrunch.com — Google?s Orkut social network, which has been having a bit of a renaissance this year, has been down for the last thirteen hours as of 2 am PST. It?s unlikely this is an upgrade given the amount of time the site has been offline. This just isn?t Google?s day.
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baxtermadduxDec 29, 2006
hey jugalator,have you ever experienced a Digg downtime?there was a long one right before the latest revision. they can take many many hours. it sucks.
duniyadndDec 29, 2006
@disillusioned: First of all, its an interesting question.. I'm not sure why you feel that someone can't ask if Google can keep up a standard of minimal bugs and outages (not saying they can't have bugs, but outages and deleted mails are pretty heavy). And lets not forget that Blogger was going some issues for quite a few users a couple of months ago. As Google continues to create and acquire more and more products, people will expect that they will need to maintain their uptime comparable to their best product - Search.Second of all, your explanation is quite basic and doesn't necessarily give the whole picture.Google has 150,000 servers, yes.. but each server deals with different products, server A doesn't necessarily take care of Gmail and Orkut at the same time - those are two different products that Google is having problems with - each user's Gmail account, according to some article/paper is on 3 servers, I doubt those same servers are Orkut's - so really, its the equivalent of us complaining that Sony is unable to mass produce their Blu Ray drives and they screwed up with their battery fiasco.I have no idea how an unannounced outage of 13+ hours is equivalent to your MySpace example when you use the word "maintenance".Another point you could have pointed out is that the Gmail problem only happened on Firefox 2.0.0 browsers - and is not necessarily Google's fault.@senfo: sure companies can shut down sites unannounced, but these sites are are all forms of services... it's an inconvenience, and we'll complain about them nonetheless. Take a flight and lets see you not complain that a plane reached late - and many times its not the airlines fault due to maintenance.
davidepaulaDec 29, 2006
I think Orkut was hacked. I lot of people that have account on Orkut received e-mails from them saying their accounts was canceled because of pedophilia a few hours before the website went down. I think they had to shut down because they were hacked. Of course, we won't know what happened.
warzaDec 29, 2006
It's up, tested it two or three hours ago, no problem.Why the bitterness?
thejokkerDec 29, 2006
you dont need an invite to join now, must be what they worked on.
fortezzaDec 29, 2006
I am glad it is back up, I was wondering what I what I was going to do after it went down. Oh yeah, the same things I did before it went down. Feel free to speculate what those were.
ionutDec 30, 2006
I'm sorry but the TechCrunch only said that Orkut is down. The link should be: orkut.com, the actual site that is down.
ravencinJan 22, 2008
whatever you do, i think orkut is the best social network <a class="user" href="http://socialbr.com/orkut.html|">http://socialbr.com/orkut.html|</a>