Man, I hope S @ H site comes back online so we can get back to the real imporant posts like the minute to minute "expected ship date" updates :(

Or Iketart placed dozens of orders for 99 sets again.

 

Or we are so busy posting in this topic that we did not notice we are invaded by the chinese and they blocked the legosite already.

Wow how this thread has gone off the rails today.  That being said, please do not close the thread down!

Wow how this thread has gone off the rails today.  That being said, please do not close the thread down!

"and other topics" in the title grants immunity

Maybe all you banned people can't access the site...

"and other topics" in the title grants immunity

 

Excellent, maybe we can discuss if we should make a youtube video when the iPhone 6 comes out and place one inside an assembled unglued SSD and launch it from the 4th floor of a building, what happens to the iPhone and to the SSD.  I am curious.

Maybe all you banned people can't access the site...

 

Maybe Lego hacked the BP database and they took down the online shopping site while they are tracking us all down.

Excellent, maybe we can discuss if we should make a youtube video when the iPhone 6 comes out and place one inside an assembled unglued SSD and launch it from the 4th floor of a building, what happens to the iPhone and to the SSD.  I am curious.

Don't you think the awesomeness of the iPhone 6 will make SSD fly up?

Maybe all you banned people can't access the site...

 

Good point, shop.lego.com is working perfectly fine for me.  I just ordered 5 of the SSD as it came became available and then poofed again.

Good point, shop.lego.com is working perfectly fine for me.  I just ordered 5 of the SSD as it came became available and then poofed again.

 

Just kidding..

at half price :?

Excellent, maybe we can discuss if we should make a youtube video when the iPhone 6 comes out and place one inside an assembled unglued SSD and launch it from the 4th floor of a building, what happens to the iPhone and to the SSD.  I am curious.

Too many steps involved. I'd rather watch the SSD vs DS video again when I am in the mood for destructions.. At least I am not stcuk with the cleanups

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuxM-avNfLo

Don't you think the awesomeness of the iPhone 6 will make SSD fly up?

 

Wow based upon reading user comments on apple insider.com either you are an extremely sarcastic Android user or your an Apple fanboy.

I of course am an Apple fan, but not that over the top!

That's probably why they add those items earlier... so the switch flip can be quick and painless.

 

This outage seems pretty serious - the "Shop @ Home Canada" site is offline too. Outages during the business day are pretty uncommon nowadays.

 

this isnt bricklink, sites like shop at home dont go down for maintenance, especially not during the day. even if one DC caught fire they have a DR site. it appears the outage is worldwide. all the changes are done in the background DB's, no switches to flip

this isnt bricklink, sites like shop at home dont go down for maintenance, especially not during the day. even if one DC caught fire they have a DR site. it appears the outage is worldwide. all the changes are done in the background DB's, no switches to flip

Well, let's all hope for some Big Zoo / Vampyre Hearse action once site is up. Or even SSDs at half off? Maybe they end up with interesting prices in DB after recovery...

interesting in favor of us or them ?

this isnt bricklink, sites like shop at home dont go down for maintenance, especially not during the day. even if one DC caught fire they have a DR site. it appears the outage is worldwide. all the changes are done in the background DB's, no switches to flip

 

Yeah, I know... I'm one of those IT guys.

 

If the website portion of your ecommerce site goes down, *something* still needs to tell the other site to spin up. In cases of major infrastructure failures, that can fail to happen and the other site would be turned on "manually."

 

In cases where its the backend that suddenly goes poof (or is hacked) you won't just blindly turn your backup site back on until you understand what happens... especially when you are dealing with the kinds of money and personal data Lego deals with on a day-to-day basis.

 

PS http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/01/04/disaster-recovery-is-not-business-continuity/

this isnt bricklink, sites like shop at home dont go down for maintenance, especially not during the day. even if one DC caught fire they have a DR site. it appears the outage is worldwide. all the changes are done in the background DB's, no switches to flip

 

It is on behalf of greenpeace who wants TLG to stop using Shell oil who are prepping to drill the arctic.

Yeah, I know... I'm one of those IT guys.

 

If the website portion of your ecommerce site goes down, *something* still needs to tell the other site to spin up. In cases of major infrastructure failures, that can fail to happen and the other site would be turned on "manually."

 

In cases where its the backend that suddenly goes poof (or is hacked) you won't just blindly turn your backup site back on until you understand what happens... especially when you are dealing with the kinds of money and personal data Lego deals with on a day-to-day basis.

 

PS http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/01/04/disaster-recovery-is-not-business-continuity/

 

what you see and where the information is stored and getting pulled from are two different realms. the site has been down since since about 11:30 EST, it must be the back end that crapped out or got compromised hence they just took the site offline. most places have transparent mirroring. heartbleed?

this isnt bricklink, sites like shop at home dont go down for maintenance, especially not during the day. even if one DC caught fire they have a DR site. it appears the outage is worldwide. all the changes are done in the background DB's, no switches to flip

My money is on an entry level programmer who updated codes in production server OR moved poorly tested codes from Dev straight to Prod

My money is on an entry level programmer who updated codes in production server OR moved poorly tested codes from Dev straight to Prod

... and no longer has a job. doubt entry level would have access to perform updates to prod worldwide. waiting for pricing errors when its back up

My money is on an entry level programmer who updated codes in production server OR moved poorly tested codes from Dev straight to Prod

Nobody updates anything in production in a middle of business day, unless it is a reaction to something bad occurring. Might be some security thing...

It takes a lot of work to mark 100 sets with "Retiring Soon" on it!

Unconfirmed man in the middle attack. Basically the high value exclusives were being remotely manipulated and orders were re-directed to offshore accounts. Doesn't look like TLG had any knowledge.

 

http://bit.ly/IqT6zt

Unconfirmed man in the middle attack. Basically the high value exclusives were being remotely manipulated and orders were re-directed to offshore accounts. Doesn't look like TLG had any knowledge.

 

http://bit.ly/IqT6zt

Yep... then the guy tries to sell them by a pallet on bricklink...