Dropbox DROPS BOX as service GOES TITSUP worldwide

Dropbox suffered a major outage across the globe today – the company blamed "routine internal maintenance" for the significant wobble, which appears to be ongoing. At time of publication, Dropbox was claiming on its official status page that services were running normally again. However, a quick scan of "Dropbox down" tweets …

[jaime]

Confirmed here

Error (500) Something went wrong. Don't worry, your files are still safe and the Dropboxers have been notified.

[Dan 55]

We are recovering your files from our Utah data centre.

[Anonymous Coward]

As of 1228 EDT, Dropbox is working on the US East Coast. In any event, it's not like I use it for high-priority stuff. If it goes down for a while, I can wait for it, and if it disappears forever, the contents are either replaceable or expendable.

[AJ MacLeod]

In any case unless you have only ever used the web interface (which is unlikely) or have deliberately only "selective sync"'d certain parts of your Dropbox contents you'll have a complete copy of your files on a machine you own.

I'm immediately sceptical of anything "cloudy" but Dropbox does generally work pretty well for some businesses who haven't the resources to run their own solution.

[twilkins]

Fine here now (17:44 BST), of course the beauty of it for me is that I have a copy of all my files locally...

[vordan]

This is why we have our own company OwnCloud setup..

[Anonymous Coward]

"This is why we have our own company OwnCloud setup.."

I have one at home as well, behind HA Proxy which is in one of the DMZs ...

[steamrunner]

What happens when your OwnCloud setup crashes?

[Whistlerspa]

That's why it pays to use more than one cloud service I guess.

[Doctor Syntax]

"Hang on, that's not the right metaphor..."

Any storm in a teacup? No...

Who's next?

[VinceH]

Every silver lining has a cloud.

[John Bailey]

Red sky at night, house on fire.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Red sky at night, house on fire."

Red sky at night, your cows are alight.

(Possibly from Private Eye cartoon during the mad cow's disease epidemic in the UK)

[Synonymous Howard]

Red sky in the morning, house still burning.

[Teiwaz]

"Hang on, that's not the right metaphor..."

'The Infinite Sky is Motionless Above'

or

'On the Edge of a A Vanishing Autumn Cloud'

[choleric]

I wandered lonely as a Dropbox cloud.

Dropbox is currently pushing up daffodils.

[Sarah Balfour]

Any port in a storm…?

Preferably one with an external backup drive attached to it

[JDX]

Re: Any port in a storm…?

DB going down only means (for the vast majority) that your local changes are not getting backed up for a few hours. Probably not a big deal.

There will be a few people who need to sync to a new device - setting up a new PC or something - but that will be a tiny minority in the timescale in question.

[Munchausen's proxy]

That's why it pays to use more than one cloud service I guess.

Or fewer than one.

[Small Furry Animal]

It's always darkest before you turn on the lights

[Charles 9]

Even if it's midday?

[Charles Manning]

So a BOFH screwed up?

Well there's a first time for everything!

[auburnman]

Re: So a BOFH screwed up?

If a BOFH did it it was probably to teach someone a lesson/get someone fired. Perhaps a well-loved on-call bonus was at risk because some PHB said "we never have out of hours emergencies?"

[Anonymous Coward]

Slow news ...

The journo's friend on a slow news day ;)

https://downdetector.co.uk/problems/dropbox

Apart from the snide remark, the above is handy when you are trying to decide if it is your end or their end that is broken. Also see http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

[batfastad]

Oh no...

... I can't access the files in the 2MB of storage space that Dropbox give.

[herman]

Hey! You! Get offa my cloud!

OK, now I gave my age away...

[Ken Moorhouse]

Cirrus question

How long, in cumulus, was DropBox down for? What is the current Stratus?

People who rely too much on these cloud services should seek out Altos, and Nimbus!

[robin maddison]

Red Sky at Night- Hendon is on fire! (Round the Horne?)

[Anonymous Coward]

The Cloud

Somebody elses computers you have no control over.

[Nameless Faceless Computer User]

No problems

Everything works fine here

(don't you just hate people who say that?)