Flickr Is…
Jul 19th, 2006 by lisa
…having a nervous breakdown. They’ve been saying “things will be back up soon”, for a few hours now, and yet the photos remain resolutely not there.
I don’t want to worry. Just because I have over 1,000 photos archived on their site, that’s no reason to worry right? They know what they’re doing, right?
Right? 
Yeah, i hope they come back soon.. i have over 13,000 photos on there! crazyness!
Jajaja, all of you, 2.0 fans… pray always for the content you’re giving to others :).
Seriously… DVD’s are cheap, do backup. Don’t trust your content to others.
They have backups I’m sure, espicially if you have a pro account. But I’d get a backup hard drive if the photos are that important. Like a little Flash hard drive.
Haha, just relax dude. Everything will be ay-okay!
On behalf of the Flickr team, we’re sorry for the downtime. Everything is back up and smooth now
We definitely know what we’re doing and there are lots of very good people whose job it is to ensure we never lose a bit of data — ops team on site and experts on call 24/7.
Thing is, once in a while a confluence of unlikely events and, um, human error mean that there is a disturbance in the force. This is always temporary.
And Miguel: backing up on your own is always strongly encouraged, but copies of Flickr photos live on many drives in multiple data centers (and even tape backups) and there’s a whole team to work on each aspect of infrastructure. For 99%+ of people, Flickr’s safer than remembering your own backups. (And we’re part of a $40 billion dollar company, so the chances of going out of business are pretty slim.)
Yay! Flickr has returned.
Yeah, I know you guys know what you’re doing. I wasn’t really worried… heh.