No, it's not just you. Steemit experiences intermittent outages during the early morning hours of July 18th
Steemit has been experiencing intermittent downtime as hoards of users flock to the new social networking upstart during the early hours of Monday the 18th of July. Slack communication during this time was also down for maintenance -- at a time the community needs such channels to ease fears of losing all of their new found cryptocurrency wealth. This comes just days after client side attacks stole funds from accounts, and hackers launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the web property.
In a recent statement issued by Ned, the CEO of Steemit, it was claimed that the team is working hard to mitigate such issues.
This process may take a few days, but we operate under the maxim that it is better to be safe than sorry. Steemit will be back up and running soon, and anyone whose accounts were compromised will be reactivated and fully reimbursed.
Meanwhile, many users have been greeted with 503 errors, internal server errors, and new accounts even saw messages indicating their newly created accounts simply did not exist.
While such experiences should be expected during periods of exponential growth for any upstart, it does make one ponder whether or not these might be the norm on a website that is tied to presenting an ever evolving distributed blockchain ledger of posts and votes.
What do you think?
Sound off in the comments section below, and share your experiences!
just some growing pains... that's why it says "beta" in the corner ;)
Is not this than not caught up with the server's ability to increase the number of users
I think steemit teem need 24*7 support teem and resource monitoring tool. Now - it is not so important may be, but looking on 503 error form nginx instead of main page is not convenient at all. In nearest future every second during one people watching 503 other will dump the token price.
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It was a 19 hour day for me today working on Steemit.. New Record! Worth it though, I'm so excited so many people came to Steemit. I think tonight's 503s are under-control (I hope) .. We have a new SysAdmin and many cool security features already on the way.
Anyways, I'm confident from what I have seen so far. Enjoy Steemit!
That's great to hear, thanks! I'm definitely enjoying the platform :-)
Well do not forget, it's a two months old platform, so I guess we can live with that for now ... And I still believe it's the first crypto experiment that really brings something new to the world .... So hang in there .... I powered up my Steem so I can forget about fear ....