Comments on: Last.fm Brags About Uptime, Overheats, Goes Offline

By: مركز تحميل

مركز تحميل — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:48:44 +0000

I know the Last.fm crowd can be fanatical and out of line, but it seems like some of the comments were reasonable.

By: منتديات

منتديات — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:42:35 +0000

I don’t think that the hosting provider is going to be public. Any way it’s been over 3 years of non stop service.

By: Free Freebies

Free Freebies — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:58:43 +0000

thanks for the plus

By: kim bjorkland

kim bjorkland — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:28:07 +0000

you should also be mindful of libel laws in the UK, they are unfortunately much more stringent than here :\

By: doh

doh — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:41:06 +0000

Go fix your servers and give free radio back!

By: DaVince

DaVince — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:38:48 +0000

Hey, it happens. Cut them some slack.

By: Joel Stomp

Joel Stomp — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:20:29 +0000

Widen your horizons joe, not everyone is running on Linux crap.

By: LOL

LOL — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:08:57 +0000

3.4 years is nothing. For comodity hardware Netware was always the best, There are Netware servers out there that have had zero downtime since the 80’s.

By: Duda Right Thing

Duda Right Thing — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:11:09 +0000

Time to patch.

By: Joe Stump

Joe Stump — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:25:18 +0000

Not to poo poo uptime, but any decent systems administrator will tell you that having a server up for that long isn’t a good thing, really. If anything it means that it hasn’t been properly kept up-to-date with security patches, kernel vulnerabilities, etc. Hopefully, it’s something behind their DMZ.

That being said, they’re handing this outage like pros. Keeping everyone looped in and being transparent. Kudos.

By: David Singleton

David Singleton — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:56:06 +0000

I look forward to TC getting a karmic kick for unsubstantiated reporting

By: Sarcastic Robert

Sarcastic Robert — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:08:01 +0000

Central Time is the Time that Satan uses. He lives in the hot core, the centre of the Earth.

Mike is not drunk!

Hey mike there is something fishy … Any server would have a load average and in this case it is Load average 0.00 0.00 0.00 , that means the server was not used at all for a long time! So maybe it is good that you are careful with last.fm statements! Man they were wasting electricity for so many days by keeping a server running that was not doing anything! Maybe I could be wrong…

Read the third comment here:

http://m.flickr...tfm/3548618495/

By: Sarcastic Robert

Sarcastic Robert — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:00:25 +0000

“maybe” that explains the RIAA joke above…

By: Sarcastic Robert

Sarcastic Robert — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:58:10 +0000

Scotland RIAA!

By: Nicholai

Nicholai — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:49:23 +0000

I hope they are serious about the 3.4 years.

By: Last.fm Overheats and Goes Offline | Technology Blog

Last.fm Overheats and Goes Offline | Technology Blog — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:47:26 +0000

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By: Timmy

Timmy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:24:39 +0000

Hah. It’s called “karma.”

To the peeps (the real ones, not the spammers) saying they wish they had an alternative for when last.fm goes down, I switched to ilike.com, after TC’s last article about CBS Interactive’s love affair with the RIAA. Basically the same type of service (logging the music you listen to.) There’s also stumbleaudio.com, which is directly intended to give you “new” music to listen to.

By: Ben Carlson

Ben Carlson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:58:14 +0000

The one good thing about this has been how open Last.fm has been to letting us know what happened, even providing a graph for our viewing pleasure. Nothing even close compared to what Twitter says when they’re down. Either way, was missing Last.fm this afternoon!

By: Last.fm takes a Downtime trip after boasts of providing longest Uptime | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:25:12 +0000

[...] a bit about Last.fm, claiming to have the longest uptime on Twitter. What happens next? Well it falls flat on its face in less ten days. A mere coincidence or course and there shouldn’t me much [...]

By: Zeta

Zeta — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:46:55 +0000

You guys need to do a follow-up on the last story about Last.fm (RIAA-gate). I’m still leaning towards TechCrunch’s version of events being true, though I am a bit perturbed that you guys seemed to delete a lot of comments. I know the Last.fm crowd can be fanatical and out of line, but it seems like some of the comments were reasonable. In any case, though, didn’t you guys say a followup was forthcoming?

By: James Wheare

James Wheare — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:29:37 +0000

Back (be gentle), you can all go home now.

By: KevenDones

KevenDones — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:25:12 +0000

Correct!

By: TechcrunchCommaDistinctionsLostOn

TechcrunchCommaDistinctionsLostOn — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:11:04 +0000

In their defense, I don’t think the tweet was bragging about the uptime of the whole last.fm *service*. It’s saying that a specific *server* has been up for 1244 days, which is indeed a large number. But this server is one of many, of course — it might not even be in their production serving environment (it might be a development server, for example) and indeed last.fm’s downtime doesn’t imply that this server crashed.

By: Laurie Denness

Laurie Denness — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:15:55 +0000

4 rows of racks, 2 hot aisles, 2 cold aisles

By: passerby

passerby — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:09:12 +0000

Stop spamming your crappy little not-yet-launched service, please. At least, until you can demonstrate that one of your servers has been up for 1254 days before its power supply melted on the hottest day of the year.