November 10, 2007
"An error has occured whilst accessing this site."
What beautifully sweet irony - Niall Sclater has just posted Downside of the small pieces model about SlideShare being down, and comments:
Of course institutional sites go down too - but it's our business to keep them working and at least if services are hosted in-house we can pull out all the stops to ensure they're fully functional.
So I thought I'd log in to the intranet and build a quick scraper to alert me from a status page that I think exists on there somewhere about any OU server outages...
...only I can't get in...
And I get the same error when I try to log in to my student page (must be an error with the SAMS single sign on authentication system)?
Now this may or may not be a problem with my browser (Flock).... but how do I know? I'm using Flock successfully with a whole range of other websites at the moment - and my internet connection is fine... hmmm... [UPDATE: not a cookie problem - seems to be working now, an hour or so later... but I do notice the Bloglines plumber is out... Maybe there's a bug going around?!]
If it was SlidesShare, I'd mail the developers...with the OU - I guess I can try that Email us form, but I don't hold out much hope...
PS SlideShare seems to be back up now, anyway... :-)
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Posted by ajh59 at November 10, 2007 08:59 PMHi,
Found your post in my RSS for SlideShare. Sorry about today's outage. The service is back up though uploads are still having problems from time to time.
We are paying attention to this issue. So drop us an email if you have any problems when you login next.
Thanks for using SlideShare!
rashmi
(SlideShare cofounder)
"Press any key to exit or any other key to quit".
BTW, I never saw anyone use a baiting tag before. :-)
When does trying to be interesting qualify as baiting?
Re. sites being down - the small pieces approach spreads risk in a way - if Slideshare was down (and let's face it, I can't remember it being down before, so not as if it happens all the time), fine, I'll do the wiki activity, or read the blogs, or look at the YouTube collection.
If the VLE is down - I'm stuffed.