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Being down for 91 minutes yesterday easily raised the company blood pressure a good 91 points. But, we’ve added infrastructure, built out our failover plans, and collectively breathed a small sigh of relief.

I think it may be a rite of passage for a web startup to go down at exactly the wrong time, which in our case meant having just been posted to lifehacker and embedded in hundreds of sites.

Here’s hoping we got ours out of the way early! In any case, we’ll go into our weekends feeling good again, and taking comfort in knowing that downtime problems are only problems because so many people care.

I woke up this morning, started responding to some user feedback, went to our bug tracking software and….loading….loading….loading. Not good. Next stop www.dipity.com, same result.

Looks like we’re experiencing a bit of a downtime. We’ve rolled up our sleeves, gotten out hardhats and pulled out our screwdrivers. In short. We’re looking on to what’s going on and why were down. I’ll continue to post updates as they become available.

Timeline and Update:
7:55a PDT - First report of downtime
9:08a PDT - Working with our hosting company to restore service

9:36a PDT - Site returns, cause still under investigation.

A few days ago Dipsters got together to celebrate our official 1 year anniversary as a company. Derek was semi-elusive all week about his plans for an offsite for April 12th, which turned out to be a row of seats at AT&T Park in San Francisco.

It was windy and chilly in the shade (BK almost had to buy a sweatshirt of shame, but was saved by Zack, Ben, and Eric who left to find a sunny spot in left field bleachers). Madelaine and Ryan managed to get ahold of a huge WAD of caramel popcorn for free, and even though she denies it, I think Madelaine might have eaten the whole thing.

At about the 6th or 7th inning, the words Happy Birthday Dipity showed up on the screen (thankfully distracting us from the pain of Giants game). The words helped remind all of us that celebrating a birthday is not only marking the accomplishments of the year before, but a way to look forward to the year to come.

As a new company it’s often hard to see ahead even 3 months into the future, yet I am confident that with more sweat, teamwork, and a little luck, Dipity will be celebrating it’s 2nd year in no time at all!

Thanks to everyone who’s helped us out up to now. Hey! Hey! Whaddaya Say!