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Challenging Week on PoetrySoup! Crashed Servers!

Blog Posted:7/21/2020 8:47:00 PM

[UPDATE - Weds 7/22] - PoetrySoup servers had a complete operating system failure Sunday night.

We could not communicate with you because our email was on the same server.

Emailing is slowly coming back up, but we are working to resolve other, less critical, website functionality.

Virtually no sleep for 3 nights, but at least all of your wonderful poems were saved.

We still have work to do. Bear with us!

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Krish
Radhakrishna

Date: 8/13/2020 8:43:00 AM

Thanks for saving our poems. Is there a way of backing up our poems so it is not lost? That way should it happen again we are safe.

Michael
Tor

Date: 7/31/2020 6:53:00 PM

Appreciate all your efforts. Thank you Poetry Soup Team, without your efforts it would still be down. Us writers realize how much this site means to us when it is not accessible. It is almost an addiction to many of us, expression in words is part of our being. You, for some of us, gave us our life back. Thanks again...

Kim
Rodrigues

Date: 7/29/2020 3:20:00 AM

Thank you for all the hard work! PS was greatly missed when it was down!

Beata
Agustin

Date: 7/27/2020 11:17:00 PM

Thanks so much. God bless you.

Jeanne
Mcgee

Date: 7/27/2020 6:47:00 AM

I fully agree with John! Thank you for working diligently for us. Jeanne

John
Watt

Date: 7/24/2020 9:16:00 PM

Grateful for all the time, work, headaches, and lost sleep you've endured this week. So happy to be able to return to normalcy... now if only 2020 could do the same! Well done.

Reason A.
Poteet

Date: 7/24/2020 8:01:00 PM

My thanks to you, Team Poetry. So glad we have tech savvy folks in charge.

Edward
Ibeh

Date: 7/24/2020 1:25:00 PM

Thank you very much for not only fixing the technical glitches but ensuring that not one single poem is lost this time around! Great job, guys!

Sam
Kauffman

Date: 7/23/2020 2:51:00 PM

Thanks for all of your diligent hard work. Hope you are now getting some sleep! PS was missed. It felt like the twilight zone so we are so glad you were able to resolve most of your technical issues. Thank you!! Time for a nap - or two!! Blessings!

Jan
Allison

Date: 7/23/2020 7:40:00 AM

Thanks for all your hard work in getting the site back up and running:-) regards Jan x

Gregory Richard
Barden

Date: 7/22/2020 8:29:00 PM

Thanks for your diligence and hard work ... it is greatly appreciated! Tech is wonderful stuff when it WORKS, but can work like nothing else to turn your hair gray when NOT working ... it has helped to teach me patience. Blessings!

Hilo
Poet

Date: 7/22/2020 5:59:00 PM

Thank you for allowing me to sort through my diligence in other matters,--grateful for your return, Aloha William.

Elaine
George

Date: 7/22/2020 5:39:00 PM

I so appreciate all that you do! Sincerely, Elaine George

Team
Poetrysoup

Date: 7/22/2020 9:44:00 AM

Well, it is 2020...

Gary
Radice

Date: 7/22/2020 9:14:00 AM

I'm going to be honest here and say I didn't think I'd miss Poetry Soup as much as I did :) Congratulations to all for getting the site back up as quick as you have.

Robert
Lindley

Date: 7/22/2020 9:11:00 AM

Thanks, great to be able to read and communicate with my friends here again. To some of us, poetry exists in our hearts as a much cherished friend, an outlet that helps keep us afloat in this vast sea of darkness, conflict, evil and even insanity that so deeply and oft so very well hidden, rules the world today. God bless.....

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 7/22/2020 7:52:00 AM

Thanks for your hard work getting it up and running again.

Brian
Strand

Date: 7/22/2020 7:51:00 AM

Just shows Mark,what a gap in our lives when we have no 'soup' to sup..and dare I say to nourish our daily musings..

Heidi
Sands

Date: 7/22/2020 6:59:00 AM

Thank you for your work on this. It is great to see it up and running again. We enjoy being here :)

James
Fraser

Date: 7/22/2020 6:44:00 AM

Servers, the bane of many a company. Just a thought, maybe PS should set up a totally different email address, copy the live ones over and use to send PS Members as many get worried, and it's only polite to inform them of what's happening. All they see is the site down :( If you already sent an email, I certainly didn't get it, kind regards, James :)

James Fraser
Date: 7/23/2020 1:31:00 PM

Your welcome Mark, you've a terrific Poetry Site that's created some fantastic poetry, and although not here as much as a few years ago, still proud to be a member, kind regards, James :)

Team Poetrysoup
Date: 7/22/2020 7:04:00 AM

Good idea. We'll look into that. Thanks for your expertise. We know you are familiar with these things James.

Susan
Ashley

Date: 7/22/2020 6:25:00 AM

I appreciate all your hard work in getting the site going again and I’m so happy no one’s poetry was lost. Thank you TPS!

Team
Poetrysoup

Date: 7/22/2020 6:18:00 AM

Please bear with us. We are still working on issues.

Brian Strand
Date: 7/22/2020 7:41:00 AM

Your update info on PS facebook was good thinking Mark,maybe new folk are not aware of it...just saying

Craig Cornish
Date: 7/22/2020 6:38:00 AM

A year where no new challenges are needed but delivered anyway. Good work.

Joseph
May

Date: 7/22/2020 5:43:00 AM

Thank you for all your hard work TPS, much appreciated.

Maureen
Mcgreavy

Date: 7/22/2020 5:39:00 AM

So happy you are back! Thank you! ~mo

Thomas
Wells

Date: 7/21/2020 8:56:00 PM

I am so sorry to learn that you had to deal with a major crash. I doubt that many of you are getting rich trying to host this website. I just want you to know I really appreciate all the hard work you do! Thank you! :-)

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