Photo Uploads and Publishing Outage
Tonight starting at 9pm EST we will be migrating all uploaded images to Amazon S3, a file storage service. This will help us keep costs down while also providing redundancy (if one photo server goes offline, we can easily bring another online in its place). Amazon S3 is proving to be a very reliable image hosting provider, and we’ll be following successful pioneers such as SmugMug and 37Signals.
During the migration you will not be able to upload photos or publish your lenses. All other site functionality (creating and editing lenses, lensrolling, squidcasting, etc) will not be affected by the migration. We’re expecting the entire process to take about 4 hours, and all functionality should be restored around 1am EST.
* Update: Our image migration is still underway, but image uploading is now re-enabled. Thanks for your patience!