Thumper Gives Llama Power
June 1st, 2007 by Lou
There are 11,399 blog entries Technorati tagged zooomr, must be at least 100 in the last 24 hours. I’ll leave it to the reader to sift through these to get a blow-by-blow of what’s going on. Basically, it seems like the entire blogosphere is watching “the little photo sharing site that could” pull from the brink of oblivion.
Of course with anything of this magnitude of attention, there is both good and bad press. Or is there any such thing as “bad” press for Zooomr in this situation?
Because of all of this, the news is as much about the news as the news.
Insofar as Sun’s help goes, the Sun sales manager on the Zooomr account, Tim Van Loan, was at the Zoho data center at 5:30 AM this morning assisting with getting the Sun Thumper operational. By becoming a part of the Zooomr story, we hope that Thumper gives some additional Llama Power to Zooomr.
For those not in the know, the awesomeness of Zooomr is powered by a secret process involving Llamas. I’m paraphrasing, but this is according to Kristopher Tate, the Web developer, Zooomr co-founder and protagonist of the unfolding saga at Zooomr.
At this point, 3:40PM on Friday, Kristopher has Krashed, for now. Sun is sending someone out to try to get Debian running on the Thumper. I hope it works. No zfs, zones or dtrace I guess. Oh, well.
Now for a thoroughly biased recommendation, Kris, if you read this, please give Solaris or OpenSolaris a go for this, run it as an iSCSI target or NFS server on top of ZFS, and move on. Get a solid service back up! Biased or not, I assure you it is sound advice. On the other hand, its always tough to change anything when you are under the gun. You are for sure there, but you are certainly not alone.
llama power, sun, thumper, x4500, zoho, zooomr
it was really amazing to see how zoho came in and helped out zooomr for purely selfless reasons. i love seeing companies that act in a truly selfless way. i’ll have to check those zoho guys out.
I also hope Kris takes some time to look at using Solaris or OpenSolaris.
I think a lot of people have either used really old versions of these on really old computers (maybe at University) or have just heard people who fit into the above group saying their rubbish.
Which is a pity given all the cool ZFS and DTrace stuff they have going for them :)
I suspect the “takes some time” is at the heart of the immediate decision. Time is a commodity in short supply, and the survival of Zooomr hinges, at least to some extent, on how quickly decent service can be restored.