Shawn Sorichetti

Last night Zooomr Mark III launched. After a long week of “just a couple more hours”, “it’ll be up tomorrow”, “once this is fixed we’re done”, the highly anticipated site came back online to much fanfare. For 15 minutes.

Normally, this type of outage would be chalked up to overload of the system. The Slashdot or Digg effect. This however was not the case. After a week of database migration, the database server appears to have suffered a RAID card failure. A video of Kris Tate standing in front of the system clearly shows a hardware RAID failure. Along with a dejected Kris making a plea for better hardware.

Robert Scoble has put out a call to arms to all hardware vendors to support the little startup with a lot of heart. Other community members, have also taken up the cause, sending Tweets, blog posts, and emailing hardware vendors. I don’t think community support of Zooomr has ever been stronger.

As a single developer or “go to guy” on a number of projects my heart goes out to Kris. As a member of the Zooomr community my support for Zooomr remains solid. As a fan of the little guy, I’m cheering for you guys.

[update: Zooomr Hits take]

[update: Thomas’s post]

[update: New server on the way]