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Webthumb server move 16 Apr 2010 | 12:26 pm
Webthumb.bluga.net has completed its move to a new server. Everything should be running smoothly at this point, but if you run into any problems let me know. If your dns is slow to update, you can us...
Adding Supr urls to your site 1 Jul 2009 | 05:19 am
Over the last couple months I had a chance to help create a great new product for Stumbleupon. Su.pr lets create short urls, publish directly to Facebook and Twitter and gives you great tracking and s...
Hbase fun 13 May 2009 | 09:04 am
For the last couple weeks I’ve been working pretty heavily with Hbase. It decidedly has different usage patterns then Mysql, but since I don’t often get to use anything relational in Mysql because of ...
Blog fixing 9 May 2009 | 10:41 am
Just realized enscript isn’t installed on my server anymore so all my posts with highlighted code examples were broken. Sorry about that, fixed now.
Webthumb Status Update 12 Feb 2009 | 12:27 pm
There was an Webthumb outage yesterday, the main server Kernel Panic’d and didn’t reboot properly. DNS was switched to the backup server, and for most users there was no noticable change. However the...
Webthumb Updates 22 Jan 2009 | 06:17 am
I haven’t been actively blogging as of late, this is not likely to change, but here is some quick Webthumb news. The PHP apiwrapper has been updated, there have been some API updates but nothing rece...
WebThumb is back up 5 Nov 2008 | 05:21 pm
Once the dns change fully propagates Webthumb will be back up and fully running. If you had a different apikey on the backup instance you will want to switch back to your normal apikey. Your apikey is...
Its Alive 5 Nov 2008 | 04:09 pm
My blog and the rest of my sites are back up again, running on new hardware. The 2nd backup server/thumbnail processor is still waiting on some heat sinks before it can get installed but now were run...
5 Million thumbnails 16 Sep 2008 | 03:54 am
Webthumb hit 5 million thumbnails some time last night. This blows away the last million time, taking just 34 days for this million. On that note contact me if you are interested in bulk purchases of...
Webthumb API Change 25 Aug 2008 | 05:15 pm
Error handling for Webthumb job requests has changed. Requests with bad urls are now silently ignored instead of dropping the entire request at the first error. This will fix problems with bad urls i...
