The outage of December 8th, 2020 - a postmortem
On December 8th, 2020 a malfunction in the water-cooling system at a data-center in Roubaix, France caused an unrecoverable error in the physical machine which hosts CryptPad.fr.
On December 8th, 2020 a malfunction in the water-cooling system at a data-center in Roubaix, France caused an unrecoverable error in the physical machine which hosts CryptPad.fr.
We have not been very active on the CryptPad blog lately, however, we have been very active making new releases to CryptPad.
It was four years ago when I first started working full-time on CryptPad. At that point fewer than 10 people used the service on a weekly basis.
Normally when I write a blog post it's because I have exciting news to share. This time it's not a fun occasion because the only good news I have is that the bad news isn't permanent.
For anyone that doesn't have the time or interest to read the rest of this article, the short version is that the CryptPad team has received a 50000 Euro grant from NLnet foundation. This funding will be directed towards the design and development of team-centric features in a project we're calling CryptPad Teams.
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