Yahoo! downs! mail! servers! for! essential! and extensive! work! Yahoo! has bewildered some of its email users by freezing them out of their accounts for what it has described as "scheduled maintenance" to the system. "We are undertaking some essential, but extensive maintenance to improve Yahoo! Mail. During the maintenance period, some users may experience problems accessing Yahoo! Mail …
How is it that large companies still fail at the concept of upgrading a web-facing product? Just take down one machine in a cluster, upgrade it, put it in a new cluster, repeat with next server until you are complete. Its not rocket surgery.
I still see 'under maintenance' web pages on large web sites.
Perhaps the finally figure out that their system has a gapping security hole and deiced to fix it.
When I worked at ATT I would constantly see people having their emails hacked into. So unless some one created a virus/trojan that works on Linux/mac and windows Yahoo has a security flaw some were .
I do these kind of migrations all the time for my clients. It isnt just as simple as you describe unfortunately. It shows you dont manage complex clusters.
Most of these changes are not just to the front end HTML/PHP/JS they often involve complex changes in the bak end as well.
If yahoo is anything like some of my very large clients, we're talking 10's of LB's and 1000's of Servers, geographically dispersed.
So I'll give you the USB key and the magic RSYNC command. you go update my farm perfctly the first time. HUP HUP there youngan, get me a working upgrade!
"Just last week Yahoo! rolled out its overhauled email service and removed the beta tag from its online mail product. It also slotted more social media elements into the system. But the makeover has so far received at best an underwhelming response."
The first time they crowbarred social networking stuff into their mail it went down like a cup of cold sick so Yahoo have decided to carry on digging and add even more.
The sooner their users realise just what they're missing out on (in terms of email products and actual emails), the better. Then we can all go home, forget about Yahoo! and thousands of mail server admins can stop tearing their hair out trying to get their own emails accepted by Yahoo!'s anal mail policy.
Wankers.
This week my spam count has been practically zero, and all my email comes via Yahoo!. This means that either:
a) A spammer has been busted
b) botnet offline
c) Yahoo! SpamGuard is amazing
d) Yahoo! has been losing some of my emails
I'm hoping its a or b but have a funny feeling about d even though all my mail does appear to be there, and my spam folder is empty.
Anyone else?
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