Broken Images

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  barry · Staff · Jul 20, 2008 at 4:23 pm

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  Amazon’s S3 Service is down which is causing some image serving problems on WordPress.com. We are currently investigating. I will update this post as I have more information.

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  davesteinsblog · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 4:42 pm

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  Thanks! I sincerely appreciate the update.

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  mauriziostorani · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 4:45 pm

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  I’m so frustrate

  Thank’s man

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  wakingupto · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 4:48 pm

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  thanks for the update. hope it starts working soon!

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  dissfunktional · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 4:52 pm

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  images working here!

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  · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 4:52 pm

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  Thanks for the update….suspected just as much.

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  barry · Staff · Jul 20, 2008 at 4:54 pm

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  Just an update — S3 is still down. I have gone ahead and disabled the fetching of uncached images from S3 because it was causing problems with general image serving. For now, any images which we have cached locally will be served, those which we do not have, will not work. Overall success rate should be 70-80%. Will post here with more updates as they are available.

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  gonglabel · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 4:58 pm

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  thanks, luck on that

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  nancywozniak · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:02 pm

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  My banner image disappeared. I take it this is the problem and appreciate the info. Thanks.

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  thatfemalegeek · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:06 pm

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  Yeah, I’m having the same issue. Hopefully, all is restored ASAP.

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  thunderclanfan · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:06 pm

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  About half my images are working again. It is really frustrating though.

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  melancholia · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:12 pm

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  Yeah, my header image suddenly went AWOL. Good to at least know why.

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  iowacompact · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:13 pm

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  Oh good … I thought I was losing my mind

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  ritualnoise · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:14 pm

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  Thanks for the info. You guys are amazing, so I can live without my header for a while.

  Cheers to a great website!

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  routingbyrumor · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:20 pm

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  This is an interesting stuff.

  Until this problem was being discussed, I had never heard of “Amazon Web Services”, ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services ) but apparently it’s used by lots of websites.

  WordPress stores stuff out in the “cloud”, rather than at their data center(s). I’m guessing that the increase in free image storage (to 3GB) that WordPress made available to their members about six months ago was a result of moving stuff to Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service), which advertises “unlimited” storage. (However, they charge you based on how much you store, and how much it’s accessed.)

  But I guess, as Tom Snyder used to say, “sometimes the magic works, and sometimes…”.

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  hetoad · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:21 pm

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  Glad to learn I’m not losing my mind!

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  bugonthewallproduction · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:23 pm

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  Thanks for the update! I’ll assume images will be back to normal eventually.

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  dlager · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:24 pm

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  I am presuming that this is including all images, vodpod, gravatars and some sites with CSS upgrades. I am having random trouble viewing various images across Wp,cim right now.

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  culinarychick · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:25 pm

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  Danke Shoen,

  I thought I was going crazy for a minute

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  christopherjohnston · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 5:25 pm

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  Thanks for the info. I was setting up a new blog and I thought I was screwing something up.