Tumblr Staff: Downtime
is it a coincidence that tumblr went down while i was writing my 20 page paper and wasn’t restored until i finished it? probably.
but i finished my paper and tumblr is back up!
Yesterday afternoon, during planned maintenance that was not intended to interrupt service, an issue arose that took down a critical database cluster. This brought down our entire network while our engineers worked feverishly to restore these databases and bring your blogs back online.
While you…
