Simply Hired Blog

Mea Culpa!

Blogs that work well aren’t just paperless publishing: they’re a relationship. A good blog creates a community of people who care enough to spend time with it, interacting, exchanging insights.

But blogs are long-distance relationships, and as anyone who’s ever tried to keep a long-distance romance afloat will tell you, they take even more effort than the face-to-face kind. Effort, determination, and perseverance.

All of these things we have in abundance around these humble hallways, as Recruiting.com noted when they nominated our blog in its blogging contest. We were flattered. We were pleased. But we were also consumed with trying to create the best job-seeker experience in existence, and – what can we say? We dropped the blogging ball.

It’s not that we stopped loving you. It wasn’t you at all – it was us.

We miss you, though. Any chance we could get together soon? You know – just to talk?

confused packets

Network eats packets
Switch fed replacement hardware
All are now content

Sorry, folks, but our site was up and down for just under two hours due to the partial failure of a management card in a switch. It's been replaced and we should be alright now. We were down from approximately 2:43pm until 4:24.

Bright, Shiny Lights

Fame is hard. The cameras, the publicity, the lights... especially the lights. the blinking, flashing, distracting lights... They grew so bright that our servers got a little distracted today, and forgot about giving you jobs. For about 3 hours, some of you were shunned by the distracted servers, but they're more attentive now. We're discovering the limits of our servers - this is a good thing, as it helps us scale. Yay!

servers slept in late sunday am

hey folks, sorry for the downtime this morning on simply forums / simply fired contest.

seems that during our recent upgrade we left some sand inside one of the servers. our sysadmin cleaned that up, and we now return you to your regularly scheduled firings.

note: please don't believe the rumors about our sysadmins tying one on last night & driving donuts in the parking lot, with our servers in the back of a red camaro wearing a couple of lampshades. nothing could be further from the truth. ahem.

Where's the Beef?

Gee whiz: our servers were being *pounded* by you guys, getting sand kicked in their scrawny 98-lb weakling faceplates.

So we sent 'em to Mr. Atlas for some bulking up, and they came back bigger, better, and badder than ever (we upgraded our Simply Blog and Simply Forum server to a beefier machine). Now no one will mess around with us!

ps - apologies for the brief downtime (~30 min) while our sysadmins cleaned up the sand.