Moving to a new data center & other things that make you squeal
Twitpic will be taken down tonight at 10pm CST to complete the move to its new data center. It should only be down for a few hours.
This is the first big step in making Twitpic more reliable. This move will put Twitpic on its new hardware platform with over 3 times it’s current capacity…basically we bought more hamsters and put them in bigger wheels and gave them red bull (which is illegal in 48 states, but I know someone in government and they owed me a favor so its cool).
A new sexier & younger looking…uhhhh…*cough* a NEW layout for Twitpic will also be released tonight, below is a preview:
Thanks for hanging in there with us! There is much much more coming.
Its red bull time…
March 24th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Nice !
March 24th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Nice indeed! :)
Loved the hamsters idea :D
March 24th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
So you’re bringing sexy back?
March 24th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
ok then, feed the hamsters and good luck folks! ;)
March 24th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Great news! You guys rock!
March 24th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Keep up the good work, you’re doing a great job
March 24th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Sweet Man, way to go! I look forward to seeing the new style… TwitPic 2.0!!!
March 24th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Great! I’m tired of the (?) coming up after I take an epic picture.
Plus I wanted an opportunity to share how great I am to people on a thread that’ll probably get a lot of looks. @rexbarrett Remember that people. @rexbarrett.
March 24th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
is red bull illegal in the us? in the Netherlands you can buy it everywhere? need any help cleaning up all that hamster poo? you can hire me?:P
March 24th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Congratulations and thanks for a great service.
March 24th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Good work Noah! Nginx?
March 24th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Stoked Noah! Please tweet pics from the data centre- We love that stuff!
March 24th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Awesome job Noah! Looking forward to it!
March 24th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
So does the new DC have a tanker receiving port for the thousands of gallons of redbull Twitpic will need a day?
March 24th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Datacenter moves are so much fun. Pics or it didn’t happen.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Yay! Can’t wait. :)
March 24th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Thank you for your good work!
March 24th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Good luck with the move. I know, from experience, that this is non-trivial. All the best!
March 24th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Great news dude! Glad to hear twitpic is growing leaps and bounds; outgrowing your capacity is definitely a good problem to have. Just out of curiosity, where’s the new data center?
March 25th, 2009 at 12:16 am
I can’t wait to see the full layout after the upgrade. I only just got used to the current one (Used for less than an hour)
Curiousity question, what sort of server power will Twitpic.com be running on after the upgrade??
March 25th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Best of skill and luck in doing this.
Odd though, there isn’t a Twitter feed for this page or this thread.
March 25th, 2009 at 2:47 am
Go ahead, get mad!
March 25th, 2009 at 3:08 am
you know it also works with coffeinated water? the hamsters i mean.
March 25th, 2009 at 3:25 am
looking forward to the new lay-out guys!
March 25th, 2009 at 3:45 am
4 hours later…. what is the eta of the site being back up?
March 25th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Cool, can’t wait!
March 25th, 2009 at 4:53 am
Noah, will this upgrade include a fix for the “I’m seeing somebody else’s picture instead of mine” problem? Thanks.
March 25th, 2009 at 6:01 am
My luck. I’m new to Twitter and wanted to play with twitpic, and it’s down. I’m sure you guys will have it up in no time even better than before.
March 25th, 2009 at 6:25 am
What’s the deal? Shouldn’t it be back up now?
March 25th, 2009 at 8:31 am
… so is it done yet?
… its been a LONG time … more than a few hours
March 25th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Best.Good Luck.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Did you remove the rotate photo tags? ?Also I can no longer seem to find the stats about my photos and how many views they recieved.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
hi there,
im sure it’s down to the move n all that but my feed site ain’t pullin in twitpics no more. i’ve checked my code and the http call is getting a ‘We are exeriencing high load’ (spelt like that!) yet when i view the rss feed in a browser it looks fine.
i tried spoofing the user-agent as a browser but still no avail.
anyway – keep up the good work im sure you’re snowed under!
LuKeNuKuM
March 25th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Still no OAuth?
March 25th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Are you going to add the view count back? Essential if you want me to keep stumbling ;-)
March 25th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
I sent an upload and low and behold, it linked to a photo that isn’t mine just like the errors with the old site. Now it shows as a red dot and I can’t even delete it. I understand bugs need to be ironed out but you shouldn’t take things live that aren’t ready nor fix one of the major issues of the previous version.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:36 am
Hi,
first, thanks for the great job you did on Twitpic so far, from my usage and view it’s still the best way for broadcasting mobile snaps. Actually I felt like Cartman standing in Front of the WII Shop mumbling the can’t wait mantra.
Anyway, is there a way to bring back the views (guess why), introduce OAuth for security reasons and maybe to connect with other Microblogging Services (like, Identi.Ca?)
:)
Keep up the work.
M
March 26th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Andrew, life isn’t perfect and apps will go live and not work – no matter how many things one can think of, there’s nothing like the stress test of hundreds of thousands of people. I look to Murphy – if it can go wrong, it will – be glad such a great app exists.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Oh, I’m so glad it wasn’t me. I didn’t realize you were working on your website.
My heart bleeds for ya’, though, because I know how hard it is when you’re in a hurry to fix something on the computer, and it doesn’t want to fix!! SO frustrating!
Good Luck!
March 29th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Wanted to let you know that since the change that was made, If I delete a pic from my Twitpic photos, it *still* shows up on the badge I have on my blog.
This didn’t happen before the change…if I deleted a photo from Twitpic, it used to also delete it from the badge on my blog.
~ZZ
March 29th, 2009 at 11:44 am
What happened to the embed and sharing links????!!@!
March 29th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Pics are still showing as deleted. Seems random – whether it’s brand new uploads, or some I saw a few days ago.
March 29th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
man you are doing a great job!
please keep on rockin’!
k-f
March 30th, 2009 at 10:19 am
newbie trying to twit
March 31st, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Good luck with DC moving.
PS. Did you remove the sharing pics to other website (via html code) option?
cya!
@rofc
March 31st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Man I got some red bulls for you….check out twitpic..enjoy..
April 1st, 2009 at 1:49 am
yo! ROCK ON!!!
April 1st, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Looking forward to “Sexy”, but I am a Newby and I have a question. I didn’t know what a “Tag” was so I posted “Daughter and Grand Daughter” to a picture. Turns out a tag is a link, as it happens right back to the same picture, smaller version. I suppose it is intended to take the inquisitive viewer to another site which does not exist . So, how can I now remove the tag?
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:29 am
tried it out!! good stuff… btw, this is my second day of twitting… :P cheers…
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:50 am
Fantastic!!
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 am
I love to upload my pools picture in Twitpic.com.
You guys are having a awsome system.
Thanks
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:47 am
Twitpic is cool but wouldn’t it be better if it’s embedded right on twitter.com?
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Cool idea become a follower
April 4th, 2009 at 11:16 am
dOOd — very funny- gotta like a support staff with a sense of humor. Suggestion- feed the hamster farm Verve energy drink instead of the Red Bull- the hamster will last a lot longer. LOL