Planned outages that last a long time are rare these days for major sites, but Yahoo's photo-sharing service will experience one on July 25 for "maintenance." July 24, 2013 5:10 AM PDT A blue banner across the top of Flickr warns people that the photo-sharing site will go offline for six hours. (Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) In an unusual example of a protracted outage on a major Internet property, a Yahoo's Flickr site will be offline for six hours on Thursday for maintenance. Flickr announced the outage on its blog Tuesday, saying that the photo-sharing site will be unavailable from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. PT on July 25. Related stories Nokia Lumia 1020 high-res photos revealed on Flickr Flickr users screech as new Yahoo menu bar arrives Yahoo buys iOS photography shop to improve Flickr Flickr's revamped site hit by performance problems "During this time, Flickr will be unavailable on web and mobile," Flickr staff member Thea Lamkin said in the blog post. The outage will be broader than that, though: other sites that use Flickr photos via its applicaition programming interface also won't work, according to Flickr's API blog. " "A call to the Flickr API will result in the following error: 105: Service currently unavailable (Site Disabled)," Lamkin said. As Web technology matured and the Web's importance increases, it's become unusual to see long planned outages such as Apple's taking down its online store during major product announcements. Unplanned outages from technical problems, some of which afflicted Flickr shortly after its major redesign earlier this year, remain a problem for many companies. Culprits there include hardware and software problems and network attacks. Yahoo didn't say what improvements it expects from Thursday's outage. CNET contacted Yahoo for comment and will update this post with details.
Planned outages that last a long time are rare these days for major sites, but Yahoo's photo-sharing service will experience one on July 25 for "maintenance."
A blue banner across the top of Flickr warns people that the photo-sharing site will go offline for six hours.
(Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
In an unusual example of a protracted outage on a major Internet property, a Yahoo's Flickr site will be offline for six hours on Thursday for maintenance.
Flickr announced the outage on its blog Tuesday, saying that the photo-sharing site will be unavailable from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. PT on July 25.
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"During this time, Flickr will be unavailable on web and mobile," Flickr staff member Thea Lamkin said in the blog post.
The outage will be broader than that, though: other sites that use Flickr photos via its applicaition programming interface also won't work, according to Flickr's API blog. " "A call to the Flickr API will result in the following error: 105: Service currently unavailable (Site Disabled)," Lamkin said.
As Web technology matured and the Web's importance increases, it's become unusual to see long planned outages such as Apple's taking down its online store during major product announcements.
Unplanned outages from technical problems, some of which afflicted Flickr shortly after its major redesign earlier this year, remain a problem for many companies. Culprits there include hardware and software problems and network attacks.
Yahoo didn't say what improvements it expects from Thursday's outage. CNET contacted Yahoo for comment and will update this post with details.
