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New server!

Voo2do has been moved to a faster, more powerful server. I initially thought the transition was smooth but quickly discovered and fixed a couple of problems (details below). Everything should be running correctly now, so if you notice any possible problems, please email me at shimon@rura.org or call me at +1 857.928.3028.

Thank you all for making Voo2do a popular enough service to merit this upgrade, and special thanks to those who helped me find problems right after the move!

Update: Mikalai Beliashou reported that non-English characters in task names had been replaced with unreadable symbols. Unfortunately this indicated a problem in the backup/restore process that was used to move data from the old server to the new one, so I’ve had to re-do this move. Therefore, data changes — including edits, new tasks, and new user accounts — made between roughly 7:30 and 8:30pm EST have been undone.

I’m very sorry to have wiped out this data but it didn’t seem feasible to correct only the messed-up data. This meant I’d either have to restore again from the old server, wiping out an hour of usage, or leave many international users with useless task titles. Losing the hour seemed like the lesser of two evils. Apologies for the data loss.

Update 2: Email submission of tasks to voo2do was temporarily broken too; if you received a bounce notice, please try re-sending your task.

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23 Responses to “New server!”

  1. Leandro Ardissone Says:
    January 30th, 2006 at 2:29 am

    Yeah! :)

    Thanks bro! you rules!

  2. Juergen Says:
    January 30th, 2006 at 3:48 am

    Speed really improved – thank you! Being a german user I have to say that what we call Umlaute (ä, ü, ö) are not displayed correctly.. would be great to be able to use my native language again.

  3. Andrei Says:
    January 30th, 2006 at 11:31 am

    I’m still having trouble with accented characters. Otherwise it’s great.

  4. Kyle Says:
    January 30th, 2006 at 2:50 pm

    Definitely faster. Very cool. Thanks for all your work Shimon.

  5. Abby Says:
    January 30th, 2006 at 11:30 pm

    Hi, Shimon! I met you at Chau Chow City. Cool site. I just joined and will check it out. :D

  6. Lane Says:
    January 31st, 2006 at 3:00 am

    Really great work Shimon! Thats something I wanted to say for quite a while. Also the speed has noticeable improved. Thanks a lot!

  7. Jonathan Dursi Says:
    January 31st, 2006 at 3:59 am

    This is fantastic news. Thank you!

  8. Diego Says:
    January 31st, 2006 at 8:37 am

    Great service, and now fast!!! :) ))))

  9. willgame Says:
    February 1st, 2006 at 9:25 am

    data loss is very nice news.) thanks.

  10. Shimon Says:
    February 1st, 2006 at 12:20 pm

    I’m certainly not happy about the data loss, and am working to fix it. I know this is important data, and I will restore it as soon as possible. Please know that I am one person, doing my best to maintain this service in my spare time, and I am unfortunately not able to completely avoid mistakes and problems. I think these issues are still fixable, and if you can let me know exactly what problems you’re experiencing I will do my best to help.

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    February 2nd, 2006 at 12:36 am

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  12. myron Says:
    February 2nd, 2006 at 10:49 am

    I just want to say thanks for providing this useful service. I was using my Google mail account to keep my to-do list before I discovered voo2doo.

  13. myron Says:
    February 2nd, 2006 at 11:31 am

    Hi Shimon,

    Is there anyway that I can backup my project data? It would be nice if I could download my data in a file.

    Myron

  14. Shimon Says:
    February 2nd, 2006 at 4:06 pm

    myron: you can backup your data by clicking “your account” and then “backup/restore your data”.

  15. myron Says:
    February 2nd, 2006 at 7:56 pm

    Shimon, Thank you very much.

  16. kelsey Says:
    February 7th, 2006 at 4:25 pm

    Thank you. Gracias.

  17. Marksy Says:
    February 8th, 2006 at 10:13 am

    This application is simply fantastic, thanks so much!!

  18. willgame Says:
    February 17th, 2006 at 7:27 am

    Very thanks for data restoring i gonna back. But:( Opera 9, last build, i can`t create new task. I see it doesn`t supplied, and Opera had error in that case, but i hope…

  19. Shimon Says:
    February 17th, 2006 at 1:31 pm

    willgame: I’d like to support Opera, but I haven’t had a chance to test it yet. Unfortunately since it is not nearly as popular as the Firefox or IE browsers I cannot promise support for Opera soon.

  20. myron Says:
    March 2nd, 2006 at 4:00 pm

    Hi Shimon,

    Now that I have developed a dependency on voo2do, may I make a suggestion?

    It would be nice that I could do a quick keyword based search through my task lists. I am using Firefox, but the ‘Find’ function does not work with the task list.

  21. rk Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 9:49 am

    Thanks Shimon thanks for sharing this cool tool for free :)

  22. hi Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 12:34 pm

    一般

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