Fotopic?

I agree fotopic was/is excellent for railway photos.

I searched fotopic extensively in 2007 in order to locate suitable material for the SSS website/guidebook. I was able to contact the photographer for permission.

I also appreciate the many archive photos painstakingly uploaded by the dedicated few.

I do hope that fotopic has not been lost.

 

Has Anyone got any further information about Fotopic at all? its now 2 days since they said it would be back up. Seems like hope is fading fast. :smt010 :smt009 :smt022

FC

 

It is hard to believe it is a technical fault that has now lasted nearly 72 hours - I guess we will find out on Monday.

 

A correspondent on another forum did say that he had heard that it would be off for 72 hours. That will take us round to Monday, so, hopefully, we shall find out for certain tomorrow morning. Perhaps computer repairman only works a five day week?

 

Hello all,

This just in from Joel (former owner of Fotopic)

"...Here is the news as I understand it:

1. The reason it's unavailable is a hardware fault with the
interface to the outside world.* The gentleman I discussed the
situation with isn't an IP engineer so was unable to give me solid
details on how it's failed but if I can be of assistance in getting it
back up I will be - sadly the old Cisco 4000 series in my garage won't
cut the mustard with at least a partial routemap! The router is
intentionally powered down which could mean anything from a router
failure to a cabling fault.

* (earlyer post)
"...On my way back from t'North I swung by the datacentre which hosts Fotopic since I'm still on the access list.
The servers are there, powered up and happily humming away and trying to serve images into the void
- what was different was that the router which deals with the outside world wouldn't power up.
From this I can hypothesise that they're probably waiting for either KCom to replace kit or they're waiting on kit themselves"
*

2. Snappy Designs is solvent - and they're injecting more cash into it
to sort out Printshop and the rest. At that point (apparently) the
Printshop system will change somewhat and be more "automatic". I don't
have any more on that so please don't ask me for further details.


3. There is a plan to give Plus/Premium users at least a fortnight
extension across the board.


4. It's *hoped* that it will be back in the early hours of Monday
morning. I make that a 72-hour outage. I will keep track of what's
going on and see if I can get further information tomorrow.


5. The architecture for Fotopic.net is still largely the same as when
we left in May. This means that when it comes back it should be mostly
OK - the image servers will probably take about 20 minutes to populate
their caches during which it'll be a bit slower than usual. I have
volunteered to be on standby to help the engineers if required.


6. There will be a full statement going out to all Premium/Plus users
when it's back, which will explain things. I did ask if they had any
plans to email their users prior to the recommencement of service but
there are no facilities to email upwards of 60,000 people without the
servers to handle it (which I can well believe, we have some
"interesting" issues emailing Yahoo people en-masse for instance). SD
said a statement will come pretty sharpish tho.


7. I'll be having discussions with Snappy Designs about the future of
Fotopic.net, but please remember that myself and Nicky have been away
from the front-line since May (with the exception of assisting with
the odd support mail nobody else could answer, or when I've tried to
assist with things they didn't understand yet). So please, please,
please, the "Mr Angry" emails have to stop or I'm going to have to put
this down again. I'm just trying to help here...."

Taken from the Google Group>

Steve

 

deleted - well at least I have the excuse that I posted at the same time as the previous post unlike likeybanker who waited 7 minutes to repost the same thing

 

Sorry folks I had not seen other posts as I was probably doing mine when others were posting so post removed.

 

Yeah well done everyone for posting the same thing three times.

 

yers, someone needs to do some trimming of repeats.... :S

 

Thanks Joel for providing us with the information we are all needing to hear. I am most surprised that your have received anger and insults. Thats not on! You are not directly involved and we are just most grateful to you for providing the information you have.

Lets hope we see Fotopic up and running this week again.

FC

 

Ive herd from a mate it could be Thursday.
Im not sure were he got in the info from.
aww well i hope hes wrong, i want it back 2moro. :lol:

 

Best thing to do for now is just wait, if it's not back by Tuesday then it doesn't look good.

Basically it appears from what i've seen that all of Fotopic and it's backup went through one router (sorry not very technically minded) and it is this that is bust, hence you could have as many backups as you want and it still woulden't work, and it has been down for so long because the guys capable of fixing it won't return for the Xmas break till the morning.

Least that's how i read it in simple terms.

 

Well,what i reckon is they probably didn't reset it or do some scheduled maintainance and the router collapsed although it will be a big router......

 

or they had a New Years Eve party and someone spilt their drink on it! :-$

 

perhaps it couldnt cope with the huge influx of photos of 56312 uploaded on monday :-k

 

Well,the early hours of Monday have come and gone.... #-o Some bloody "Engineers" they are lazy buggers!

 

now back on line

 

Just clicked onto Fotopic and the front page has appeared so its obviously a work in progress.

Patience Alberta!

FC

 

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thats great news!
guess everything is still there?

 

Looged into my Fotopic and all seems as it was, so yes I guess so. Highlights the need for all of us who dont have backups to get on and do it I guess!

FC