Onemodelplace.com Gone?

[HDADULT]

It was a decent model site what the hell? I know they are in south FL but
they have been down before Wilma.

[Easton]

OMP kinda sucks... may as well try and find girls on myspace

[Easton]

the fact they're down makes them even worse... wtf? no excuse for that

have they never heard of redundant servers in off-site locations? pffft...

[HDADULT]

Well it was decent and I shot a few models from it. Signed up a long time ago
and only paid once. I was allways impressed by the design of the site.
I just find it strange to disappear off the planet with no redirect. They had to have decent traffic. I used to deal with TV Taxi which I believed owned the site.

[Easton]

i've shot models from it too, but it's still a waste of time... imho of course

and them dissapearing only reinforces how shitty they are

[Cogitator]

I happen to know they got hit hard by Wilma. They will be up soon.

[HDADULT]

Agreed nothing worse then models saying they are looking for work then flake ack

[Warren]

Originally Posted by Easton

i've shot models from it too, but it's still a waste of time... imho of course

and them dissapearing only reinforces how shitty they are

Hey Easton hows it going Man, got this email today from them, We know the owners pretty well and they are good guys, done some work with them last year, shit happens


Dear Onemodelplace.com members,

Thank you for all your kind wishes and support. We
wanted to re-assure
everyone that the staff is safe, and the OMP offices,
datacenter, and
servers were not damaged at all by Hurricane Wilma,
which has
devastated the Ft. Lauderdale area. Wilma hit the
area harder than is
being reported on the news. There are widespread
outages of essential
services, such as power, water and gas; these are
almost non-existent
throughout all of Broward County (the greater Ft.
Lauderdale area).
Estimates range from 3 to 4 million people who are
without power and
water currently. Most regular phones do not work, and
almost every
cell phone tower in the area was either damaged or has
run out of its
battery backup, so communications are spotty at best
and non-existent
at worst.

Our goal is to return services as quickly as possible.
Estimates for
the return of power to the area and to the office are
upwards of 6
weeks. Over the past few months, we had completed our
server migration
and contingency plans (prior to Wilma), and were in
the process of
executing these plans. We had already established
working contracts to
host at the NAP of the Americas (a Tier 1 hosting
facility in Miami, as
well as plans to establish a remote secondary
operation in Atlanta as a
backup). We were in the advanced stages of setting up
the appropriate
provisioning for power and space in this new facility
when Wilma hit.
For those who are interested, we already had some of
our existing
services running off what is known as a "backhaul"
network from our new
location within the NAP, and those were live on the
site (for example we
have 5 image servers for OMP and image server number 5
was live on that
separate network and had been running live for 10 days
or so).

The plan was to phase our move to the NAP over the
following few weeks,
and move all the servers (we have 15-20 servers which
now serve OMP,
which consumes in excess of 100mbs of bandwidth
sustained), and the NAP
is one of the few facilities in Florida that is
capable of instantly
expanding as we need it due to their extraordinary
capacity. However,
since there is no information from area officials
regarding when power
may return to the region, we have negotiated emergency
provisioning
with the NAP of the Americas facility and they have
committed to have
their facility ready for us this weekend.

Unless stable power returns to the current facility
(which would be the
best option), it is our intention to move the entire
server
architecture to the new facility as soon as possible
and re-establish
the OneModelPlace.com service as soon as we are
physically able to move
and set up the servers and infrastructure (even if
power does return it
is still our intention to accelerate the planned move,
since the
provisioning for power and space will have been
completed).

It is important to understand that doing this large a
move all at once
is almost never smooth. A server infrastructure as
large as
Onemodelplace.com is always hard to move. We have
received a number of
inquires about why we don't just move the servers,
however the power
and bandwidth requirements alone for OMP are so
substantial that it
makes a simple move of the servers not viable to most
facilities, which
is why we chose the NAP of the Americas. So OMP may
be a little rough
for a few days as we tune the servers and routers to
the new network.
We appreciate everyone's patience and realize that
this is a very
frustrating thing for our members (especially for
those who do not
understand the extent of the damage that Wilma left).
It is
frustrating to us also. We will be doing everything
we can to mitigate
any future outages with additional locations and
servers.

We will release more details as we have them.

Regards and thanks

[Cogitator]

I just heard that they'll be up within two days. The previous post is accurate. I live in the strike zone and we got smacked pretty hard. Not much looting though. Neighbors helping each other and all that :-)

[BrettJ]

after the past 3-5 years... and given the number of first rate options available to people .... making the decision to host in miami is just bad decision making.

[Easton]

thanks for posting that Warren

good to know they're not taking this lying down i guess...

[Easton]

Originally Posted by BrettJ

after the past 3-5 years... and given the number of first rate options available to people .... making the decision to host in miami is just bad decision making.

too true...

[Cogitator]

They were in the process of moving their servers to the Nap of the Americas facility in Miami when the hurricane happened. There they have generators out the wazoo.

[Mutt]

a complete fucking joke that is. for one thing they could have immediately pointed that domain to any server anywhere and put up a single web page informing their members what was going on. also should have had that site, or parts of it, mirrored somewhere else in case of a calamity like this. and they make out like 100 mbps is some scary amount of bandwidth that only one host in America can handle, which is a joke.

[Warren]

Originally Posted by Easton

thanks for posting that Warren

good to know they're not taking this lying down i guess...

NP Easton, its been too long man, hope you and Sherie are happy and well.

[Warren]

Originally Posted by Mutt

a complete fucking joke that is. for one thing they could have immediately pointed that domain to any server anywhere and put up a single web page informing their members what was going on. also should have had that site, or parts of it, mirrored somewhere else in case of a calamity like this. and they make out like 100 mbps is some scary amount of bandwidth that only one host in America can handle, which is a joke.

Yeah I would be really pissed too, if I paid for a portfolio that is.

[Cogitator]

Mutt: have you ever been without lights, water, cell phone, land line, DSL, gasoline and a way out of the neighborhood for 5 days before in your life? Us folks here in Florida are just now able to communicate after Wilma. Geez.

[Mutt]

have you ever seen ANY other popular high traffic e-commerce website disappear for longer than a week due to any natural disaster?

http://www.directnic.com Hurricane Katrina never brought them down.

OMP - every other fucking day has a technical problem - never seen a website that is down as often as One Model Place - don't blame that on a hurricane.

[Easton]

Originally Posted by warren

NP Easton, its been too long man, hope you and Sherie are happy and well.

indeed it has... since San Diego i think!

we are doing very well and prepping for our move to the new house

of course you will both be invited to the house-warming party once we settle in

[Warren]

Yeah San Diego it was.

Good luck with the move, I hope things go smothly for you two.

[Easton]

thanks bro, i'm dreading the actual move, but stoked about the new place!

[fitzmulti]

Originally Posted by HDADULT

It was a decent model site what the hell? I know they are in south FL but
they have been down before Wilma.

Old thread...

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=533877

[Warren]

Originally Posted by Easton

thanks bro, i'm dreading the actual move, but stoked about the new place!

Yeah I bet, congrats on the new place.

[Cogitator]

Mutt: you do have a good point. If I had a huge site I would have planned for major uptime. OMP started off small a few years ago and it took off faster than those guys realized it would. I guess they'll have to plan for these things like any other high volume site does.