Database Maintenance

As we mentioned before, Blogdigger's database has suffered a major hardware failure, and we need to take the database offline for some repairs. We're hoping this will cause only a minor interruption of service, but this is a somewhat complex operation. We estimate that the site should be back online by early next week, if all goes well. Thanks for your continued patience, and we hope to be back up and running soon!

UPDATE: The database rebuild process is going well; we've got the new database software installed and have begun reimporting the data. Some more recent data is already back up, so search results should show on the site. We hope to complete the restoration in the next 24-36 hours, then we'll restart our crawler to begin adding new content. Hopefully by Monday things will all be back to normal.

One note: there are some duplicate search results showing for some more recent blog posts; we are aware of this and will have this fixed as well by the end of the weekend.

Blogdigger Status Update

Hey y'all. I know it's been quiet here for a while, but that doesn't mean things aren't going on. I wanted to update you on Blogdigger's status, as we've had a bit of downtime lately. We experienced a drive failure on our main database server that has caused a bit of trouble. We're in the process of rebuilding it, and we expect that things should be back up online in a few hours.

Many folks have emailed me about groups not updating for a week or so; this is a separate issue, but one that we're working on as well. We're hoping that groups should begin updating again over the weekend, if all goes well. We apologize for th inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Stay tuned for more exciting news over the next week; we're hoping to put these hardware woes behind us and share some good news with you soon.