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nuttzy99
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 Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: annnnnnnnd we're back! |
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Firstly, I'd like to personally apologize for the outage SpellingCow suffered this week. The epic 15 inches of rain caused historic flooding in the area. The building that hosts SpellingCow was under chest-high water for several days leaving us with few options. I know the outage was very disruptive for some SpellingCow users and I am truly sorry for this.
SpellingCow has worked hard to reduce single points of failure including attaining connectivity from multiple providers and a gas powered generator. However, the nearby river quickly swelled from 4ft to 62ft in two or three days, surpassing the 52ft flood marker and flooding the area for the first time in at least seventy years. Despite our servers being safe on the second floor, with the building severely compromised no power was allowed to run through the building and no one was allowed to access the generator. Waters have receded and operations are back on-line.
What are we doing about it? I am pleased to publicly announce that testing of a new version of SpellingCow will begin soon. The new version discards the pop-up window entirely and is able to actually spell check as you type! Red squiggly underlines bring attention to your misspellings, as is done in popular desktop word processing programs. We are very excited for the release of this version as it has been in the works for a long time and we think it will be very popular.
As it applies to recent events, the good news is that if SpellingCow were to experience an outage, with the new version there would be no impact other than a loss of spell checking. That said, we are shooting for 100% up-time relying on multiple server locations across the United States (3 such places are planned for the near term). The servers will work in tandem to distribute the load and to also handle the loss of a server center.
We appreciate your continued support and look forward to serving you in the future.
Sincerely,
-Craig
Craig Nuttall
CEO SpellingCow.com
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kaser
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome!!
Glad to see that we're back online!! 
I've got a question though... What about advertisers? Where will their ads be displayed once the new version of spellingcow is released?
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nuttzy99
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Plans for that are still being finalized. It's a bit of a delicate matter that needs careful consideration.
-Nuttzy 
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DJ Andre
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Sounds like a good deal! Keep us posted!
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Stryker
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| Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds promising, I can't wait! 
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nuttzy99
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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Yup, just about ready!
-Nuttzy
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