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What is the situation with Fotopic going bust. Loads of stuff is appearing, can anyone find proof of this statement.

Update from Joel: "Fotopic.net was taken over by a company called Snappy Designs Ltd in May 2008 owned by ANY-Web Group, it is offline today due to a technical fault at Kingston Communications and I've been told by Snappy that it will be back sometime tonight (Friday). No statement has been issued by Fotopic.net. Directors have told me the company is solvent and this isn't related to it at all - I'd suggest you wait for the site to come back then I'm sure an official statement will be forthcoming." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.183.136.193 (talk) 19:35, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

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trainspotters said:

Hello all,

This just in from Joel (former owner of Fotopic)

"...Here is the news as I understand it:

1. The reason it's unavailable is a hardware fault with the
interface to the outside world.* The gentleman I discussed the
situation with isn't an IP engineer so was unable to give me solid
details on how it's failed but if I can be of assistance in getting it
back up I will be - sadly the old Cisco 4000 series in my garage won't
cut the mustard with at least a partial routemap! The router is
intentionally powered down which could mean anything from a router
failure to a cabling fault.

* (earlyer post)
"...On my way back from t'North I swung by the datacentre which hosts Fotopic since I'm still on the access list.
The servers are there, powered up and happily humming away and trying to serve images into the void
- what was different was that the router which deals with the outside world wouldn't power up.
From this I can hypothesise that they're probably waiting for either KCom to replace kit or they're waiting on kit themselves"
*

2. Snappy Designs is solvent - and they're injecting more cash into it
to sort out Printshop and the rest. At that point (apparently) the
Printshop system will change somewhat and be more "automatic". I don't
have any more on that so please don't ask me for further details.


3. There is a plan to give Plus/Premium users at least a fortnight
extension across the board.


4. It's *hoped* that it will be back in the early hours of Monday
morning. I make that a 72-hour outage. I will keep track of what's
going on and see if I can get further information tomorrow.


5. The architecture for Fotopic.net is still largely the same as when
we left in May. This means that when it comes back it should be mostly
OK - the image servers will probably take about 20 minutes to populate
their caches during which it'll be a bit slower than usual. I have
volunteered to be on standby to help the engineers if required.


6. There will be a full statement going out to all Premium/Plus users
when it's back, which will explain things. I did ask if they had any
plans to email their users prior to the recommencement of service but
there are no facilities to email upwards of 60,000 people without the
servers to handle it (which I can well believe, we have some
"interesting" issues emailing Yahoo people en-masse for instance). SD
said a statement will come pretty sharpish tho.


7. I'll be having discussions with Snappy Designs about the future of
Fotopic.net, but please remember that myself and Nicky have been away
from the front-line since May (with the exception of assisting with
the odd support mail nobody else could answer, or when I've tried to
assist with things they didn't understand yet). So please, please,
please, the "Mr Angry" emails have to stop or I'm going to have to put
this down again. I'm just trying to help here...."

Taken from the Google Group>

Steve

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