http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/10/03/flickr.php     Gerry caught me on iChat tonight and let me know he was having trouble reaching Flickr-- he's right! What's happening? And it looks like they are based in Vancouver... Did Mount St. Helens blow a big cork and blast it...     en-us     Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:37:04 -0700     Movable Type v2.661     60 Gerry caught me on iChat tonight and let me know he was having trouble reaching Flickr-- he's right! What's happening? And it looks like they are based in Vancouver... Did Mount St. Helens blow a big cork and blast it... http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/10/03/flickr.php       Sun, 03 Oct 2004 20:22:12 -0700 <p>On their weblog and elsewhere they have made recent remarks about the massive increase in bandwidth and server demands they are being hit with -- that some recent investment capital was needed to buy servers... I'm not aware of any effects of volcanic activity.<br /> </p> http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/10/03/flickr.php#1031 Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:03:10 -0700 <p>[I work at flickr]</p> <p>Our DNS provider has been flaking out on us; our servers are up and running just fine, but without functioning DNS service, you would not know that :( We are very sorry for the outages, and we are taking steps to make sure it does not happen again.</p> http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/10/04/flickr.php#1034 Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:07:13 -0700