Apesar de não ser muito fã de sites ou programas que não ofereçam portabilidade na hora de gerenciar recursos, o Imagehost para mim sempre foi o método mais rápido de upar imagens, porém nesses ultimos dias ele se confronta com um problema que pode comprometer as imagens hosteadas.
Como os usuários do site ja devem saber, o imagehost pode ser considerado o método mais rápido de upload de midia pois ele armazena os cookies das imagens hospedadas no próprio HD do usuário, tendo como unico ponto fraco não poder gerenciar de outras áreas de trabalho as imagens hospedadas.
O problema é explicado na pagina inicial, em inglês:
During some maintanence last night (Friday, September 17, 2010) the site database didn’t come back online. While trying to fix that, it turned out that the hard drive was actually failing – on more than one server.
The database problem is fairly easy to fix, as fortunately the site made use of replication – so hopefully no data is lost. However the main drive of one of the affected servers is so bad that the webserver software will no longer start.
The current plan is to resurrect the main website (www.imagehost.org) on one of the other servers ImageHost.org is hosted on. Unfortunately this will take some time.
Furthermore it may take some time before files on e.imagehost.org, f.imagehost.org and h.imagehost.org will come back online, as those files will have to be moved to another server and/or restored from backups (which with over 1 terabyte of data won’t go so quickly).
In the mean while files on other image servers (a-d, g & i-j) will continue to work, hopefully.
My apologies for the downtime.
Update (Sunday, September 19, 2010):
As the server which hosted the main site & e-f+h image servers is old, I’m planning to replace it with a newer & faster server. Unfortunately servers are not setup during weekends, so the new server won’t be ready until Monday (tomorrow) at the earliest convinience. Then it’ll take a few more days to configure and restore files from the old server and/or backups (for those files located on the bad drive). This means that it may be not until Wednesday or Thursday before the site comes back online. Once again, sorry about the downtime.
Por segurança, armazenem em outros hosters com suporte a portabilidade para a perca não ser catastrófica, enquanto o dono do servidor está dando manutenção no HD de 1 terabyte.
Atenciosamente
Akimenerus




