Thursday
Nov012012
DAILYBAIL SITE UPDATE
UPDATE 4 PM Nov. 1 - The website is running very slowly due to Squarespace's decision to operate in low-power mode while they struggle to keep the generator running. Thank you for your patience with the glacial page loads. It's still possible we will go dark later tonight.
It's been pretty hit and miss as far as uploading new video, photos, etc. So I'm going to give up the frustration of repeating tasks over and over and just begin to post stories in a bare bones fashion. Links and text only, with one attempt to upload photos, and that's it.
Shazam. It worked. Photos uploaded above and below.
You can follow Squarespace's efforts here: http://status.squarespace.com/
Nov 1, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Reader Comments (11)
The crew at Squarespace is doing a REMARKABLE job lugging fuel and being creative electrically to keep power going and they deserve a big KUDOS (and a medal) for their work.
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Skin - Squarespace is actually loaded. They closed a $40 million financing round last year. They are already a very profitable company, with the best website platform out there. They are so much better than wordpress (which everyone else use) it's sick.
And the CEO is a Maryland kid. Started the company while he was an undergrad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squarespace
Squarespace was founded in April 2003[1] by then 21-year-old Marylander Anthony Casalena. After 8–9 months of development and a three-hour "massive, massive fight" with his parents over the matter,[4] Casalena's father made a single US$20,000–30,000 investment, in exchange for a 5% share of the company.[5][6][4]
An alumnus of the University of Maryland's "Hinman CEOs" program,[3][7] Casalena's impetus for creating the software behind the company was his dissatisfaction in finding an elegant solution for publishing his personal web page.[1] For three years, Casalena was Squarespace's sole full-time employee; after reaching $1 million in revenue in 2007, Casalena turned Squarespace into "a full-fledged business".[6]
http://www.businessinsider.com/squarespace-data-center-hurricane-sandy-2012-10
This Startup Founder Is Saving 1.4 Million Websites From Hurricane Sandy
That's a lot of websites.
Thought I would throw that out there. If they are interested, Let Steve at the DB know and I will provide the info..
Again, the electrical infrastructure is very difficult to work on there and I would imagine that the employees homes/apartment are for the most part without power/water and that is making things that much more difficult for them. Even groceries are an issue now due to widespread damage to stores and the after-effect of no power (saw that in 06).
They deserve a really big thanks for keeping on.
http://status.squarespace.com/
Update [6:25pm ET]
We have confirmed that the fuel pump is now working. We can now operate off of fuel indefinitely and there are continuous deliveries scheduled. Additional issues remain, the largest of which being that our generator will need to be taken offline at some point to clean the fuel filter. We can avoid that downtime if Peer1 can provide a street level generator. If this generator failure does occur, we expect the level of downtime to be on the order of an hour, instead of the multi-day outage we were facing at the onset of this crisis. We remain in a difficult situation, but the most difficult challenge we were presented with is now behind us. As of this writing, Squarespace has miraculously avoided all downtime related to Sandy, but we still have many challenges ahead with respect to getting back to anything normal.
Update [4:54pm ET]
A pump has been successfully installed that is carrying fuel to the roof fuel header, and it has been running for an hour. We are awaiting confirmation that the header and our tank are properly connected. The building is going to attempt to power up downed generators for other floors in 30 minutes.