TipiT.to

We’re back in more ways than one! Last week TipiT suffered an outage at the data center we’re located at. Downtime like this never comes at a convenient moment, but this was particularly bothersome since we were busy preparing things for our relaunch with new design and payment options.

Everything on the server was redundant, but we still needed to get at the disk physically. Having done this and recovered everything, we figured that the inflexibility of a physical computer was hindering us more than it was helping us. So we moved our stuff over to Amazon and ensured such facilities that if Amazon were to be unreachable (unlikely, but still…) we can be back up and running quicker at a different host, than we have been this time.

So, we’re back but having dealt with this, we’re going to be back even better shortly. More on that in a later post.

So that’s it, we’re live. A lot of work remains to be done though.

The site in its current form is pretty stable but we’ll be adding two important things in the next couple of days:

• An aggregated list of popular sites to the front page, so you can drop by and see what’s hot right now.
• A rich and secure widget with which you can tip without leaving the parent website.

Lots of other stuff can also be improved. Your feedback is very valuable and tells us what to focus on. Expect to see many of these things fixed in the following days.

That’s it for now. Happy tipping.