I sell (sold?) electronics on Tindie. Then it went offline without any warning. Lessons learned: own your platform (or at least have a backup) and keep your $$$ close.
I don't believe their story. Every major cloud platform supports not just one, but several different methods of upgrading a web app without incurring any significant downtime. From a technical perspective, they'd have to do so many things wrong to find themselves in a situation that would require them to take down their website completely before having a replacement that I just don't see how that's possible. Maybe they were hacked by some really nasty hackers, or maybe they just stopped paying their cloud provider for some reason. Come to think of it, maybe their website or some crucial component of it, such as the database, was hosted on one of those Amazon datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain that were destroyed in an Iranian attack last month.
I don't believe their story. Every major cloud platform supports not just one, but several different methods of upgrading a web app without incurring any significant downtime. From a technical perspective, they'd have to do so many things wrong to find themselves in a situation that would require them to take down their website completely before having a replacement that I just don't see how that's possible. Maybe they were hacked by some really nasty hackers, or maybe they just stopped paying their cloud provider for some reason. Come to think of it, maybe their website or some crucial component of it, such as the database, was hosted on one of those Amazon datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain that were destroyed in an Iranian attack last month.
Thanks for chiming in Ron. Hopefully we'll know the whole story sooner rather than later 🤞