After More Than 24 Hours Offline, Tumblr Is Back

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:34:00 +0000

Mashable: Tumblr has returned to the web after a full day’s, err, vacation.

The popular blogging/reblogging platform went down yesterday afternoon during some planned maintenance; the exact reasons for the outage are unknown, but Tumblr has mentioned database cluster issues.

Rumors aside, the downtime had nothing whatsoever to do with a 4chan-led DDoS attack.

The official company blog states a fact of life for any successful startup: Keeping up with at-scale traffic on a startup’s budget and infrastructure is hard, hard work, “more work than our small team was prepared for,” the blog reads.

Tumblr on Omid Farhang

After More Than 24 Hours Offline, Tumblr Is Back