Zooomr is still not live and the situation doesn’t look good. Their database server crashed just 15 minutes after Mark III launched. In their latest blog post, Kristopher makes a desperate plea for hardware and help. Is this the end of Zooomr? I hope not. But whether it ever comes back online or not, recent events show that building a website is the easy part—building it to scale is much more difficult. It really makes you appreciate how difficult it is to run a large scale infrastructure in terms of hardware, software, and support; and makes Flickr’s achievement of receiving over 2 million uploads every day and serving 2 gigabits (12,000 photos) per second all the more amazing.

Comments

1. The Power of Community « Zooomr Hits on 2007-05-30 12:36:13 wrote: […] Zooomr update: down for the count? […]

2. Trevor Carpenter on 2007-05-30 13:10:33 wrote: We will survive! -The ZooomrNation