Instapaper in 31-hour outage, says it needs a week to restore all data

Web scrapbook Instapaper has suffered a 30-plus hour outage and is warning of a week-long restore time. Instapaper allows users to save "all of the interesting articles, videos, cooking recipes, song lyrics, or whatever else you come across while browsing” and then makes those clippings available on any device on which you …

[Anonymous Coward]

instapaper?

Is that like... some kind of bogroll?

[Winkypop]

Hipsters alarmed

Beard stylings and unicorn couscous recipes!

Lost, lost, LOST!

[Ken Moorhouse]

Just like the real thing...

Clouds can only hold so much and then they ix-xita on whoever is within proximity.

[A Non e-mouse]

But but but.....

I thought the point of cloud was that you could just scale up on demand?

</sarcasm>

[Bronek Kozicki]

Actually

Instapaper is useful for reading websites offline on kindle (or similar devices). For example, news from IT world during lengthy commute. Hint, hint.

[Ken Moorhouse]

Re: Actually

Instapaper was useful for reading websites offline on kindle (or similar devices). For example, news from IT world during lengthy commute. Hint, hint.

(ftfy)

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: Actually

...by making a permanent copy of copyright material on a 3rd party host, as opposed to the temporary local copy your browser normally makes. And who knows who else might have access to that copy. It sounds like it might be on dodgy ground in copyright terms in many jurisdictions.

[Anonymous Coward]

Move to the Cloud and you'll see the sky has no limits

Oh wait, more.... CloudFog

[wolfetone]

Every cloud has a silver lining

You just need to wait a week for Instapaper to find theirs.

[Chris King]

Hitting a limit without being able to scale up or out ? REALLY ?!

“...it appears we hit a system limit for our hosted database that’s preventing new articles from being saved”

TRANSLATION: We ran out of space, and nobody put 50p in the meter for more.

[Tom Chiverton 1]

Re: Hitting a limit without being able to scale up or out ? REALLY ?!

The linked article on Medium has the guy saying "I’m making a wager that it’ll be worth the cost savings over the next year to go with a cluster that is capped at 4TB."

Guess it wasn't worth it...

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

A Moleskine and a pencil...

[Anonymous Coward]

Instapaper cloud service provider

"The Register thinks that provider is probably Amazon Web Services"

This is a tech site so lets make sure, fire up a BASH terminal and type this in:

$dig www.instapaper.com

www.instapaper.com. 10000 IN A 54.203.255.144

$dig 54.203.255.144

ec2-54-203-255-144.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com