Saturday Squidoo Burp

For almost all day today Squidoo was down. All of my Squidoo lenses were unreachable, as well as the Squidoo homepage. When I tried to sign on this morning I couldn’t, so I assumed they were doing some unplanned maintenance or something. I headed on over to SquidU to see if there were any forum announcements about this, and I came across this thread where I noticed that there were a lot of other people having the same problem, so I concluded that the issue wasn’t on my end of the line.

Eventually, the Squidoo Staff responded and said that they had a database glitch, and they got lenses up and running but now traffic stats are broke.

Great. All of my lenses have no traffic stats now. HQ said they were working on fixing the issue, but who knows when it’ll be fixed. Since my lenses were down for half of the day, I probably missed out on earning some $$$, and I don’t know what will happen. Things will be resolved I’m sure, but it gets a little nerve wracking to see something happen to my hard work. I can only imagine what the feeling would be for someone like The Captain who have hundreds of lenses and most likely depend on Squidoo for a good chunk of their online income.

And, I know that I have no room to talk when it comes to breaking stuff. I’ve had my fair share of troubles with SquidTop and I understand what it’s like to manage a lot of people by myself. Since Squidoo’s staff is very small, I can relate to them and what they deal with. I guess this is a lesson that we shouldn’t keep all of our eggs in one basket, and that includes Squidoo. Things like this happen and it’s good to have backup sources of income in case one of them fails or is interrupted.

Anyways, I hope this gets fixed soon and that nothing was permanently damaged.