The last couple of days was a real challenge for the GNUCITIZEN network. As you may have noticed, the site and the server went down twice causing almost three days long blackout. Why did that happen?

Ever since I’ve started GNUCITIZEN I knew that the Internet will go far beyond my expectations and that growth will result in a serious administrative overhead for every type of network infrastructure. I couldn’t let becoming slave of my own project, so I decided to outsource everything that I have. As such, all local stuff that were developed become publicly available. That was a dangerous move but I was willing to take my chances.

When you outsource you put someone else responsible for the operation of your infrastructure. If something happens you cannot blame anyone. It is your idea to outsource right? This is what happened the last couple of days. Apparently, the ISP infrastructure failed on a couple of places.

I hope that everything is OK now and nothing like this will happen again. This is too optimistic to say.