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IZEA has been down for a long time. The outage is quickly approaching 12 hours.

Here is the image now on their homepage:

Looks like their data center is to blame. But if they can’t get it back up in 12 hours they are pretty sucky. Time for a switch? How long can this outage go?

[UPDATE]

Their developer has posted on their typepad blog (I do not like typepad at all by the way) which is remote hosted the following update:

“Update 2 21:36: Well, the data center has not been so helpful so far. It seems the problem was not the carrier at all, but someone or something in the center itself. The ‘engineer’s (see the quote marks there) haven’t had a clue what’s wrong, haven’t offered us any decent updates and generally just suck. However, they are, at long last, making progress and apparently we should see some servers come online shortly. In the meantime, we’ve deployed static elements of izea.com to an Amazon EC2 server and pointed some of our domains at it. We’ll be posting up a message on those sites soon for those visitors that don’t know about the blog. Hopefully we’ll have gone to a lot of effort to do that though and won’t need because our servers will be visible on the Internet once again.

What a crazy nightmare.”

I can’t believe that unqualified tech support people are not even updating you or telling you why the problem happened. What is it going to take for you to realize that data center sucks?

Oh and since you changed your dns did you know it will take longer for your sites to come back in some places once your site does come back up?

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A storm in Flordia has taken down all of IZEAs web sites. These include Social Spark, PayPerPost, their IZEA corporate homepage, and other properties. They have been down for about 4 hours so far

There is no temporary outage message, no email to advertisers or bloggers. A phone call to IZEA returned a secretary that did not have any information. The only real updates have come from the CEO of IZEA on Twitter:

@jfanaian florida atlantic. been great up until today…. but this is not acceptable.
6 minutes ago from web in reply to jfanaian

tedmurphy newflash….. internet companies rely on internet connectivity. 7 minutes ago from web
tedmurphy There are 25 really really pissed off people at our ISP right now. Everything is down. From Internet to phone service for some people. 16 minutes ago from web

tedmurphy our data center is down. completely. isn’t uptime the reason why we pay so much to be there? 24 minutes ago from web

Poor data center capacity and load issues have long plauged many of their systems. Is this a standard case of poor disaster recover, an indication of time to switch data centers, or a hint at much larger problems? What are your thoughts?

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