We are pleased to announce that all of our customers are now eligible for a $25 credit to start advertising with Google AdWords™.
AdWords ads run alongside or above Google™ search results, so you can reach new customers right at the moment when they are searching for keywords related to the products and services you offer.
This offer expired December 31, 2009.
We recently had a server that twice “crashed” and needed manually restarting. We’ve identified the cause of that problem — an apparent bug in Linux kernel version 2.6.26 — and made some changes to ensure that it doesn’t affect our customers again.
However, we didn’t find any information about this problem when searching the Internet, so we’re describing the details here in the hope that it helps someone else.
The “flexo” Web server was unavailable between 9:54 and 10:02 PM Pacific time tonight, March 28. This resulted in an interruption of service for Web sites on that server. (Some e-mail activity was delayed, but no e-mail was lost.)
We sincerely apologize for this problem. We consider this type of failure to be unacceptable, and are looking into the cause of the problem so that we can take the appropriate steps to prevent it from happening again.
Update: The problem happened a second time on March 31 from 6:22 to 6:31 AM. However, the second incident gave our engineers enough details to determine the cause (which we’ve reported in a subsequent blog post), and we have made a technical change that will prevent it from happening again.
