UPDATE: we’ve encountered problems after completing the release which have forced us to re-enter maintenance in order to troubleshoot. More information will be posted here as the situation progresses.
oDesk.com will be unavailable for about 30 minutes beginning 01:00 GMT, Friday, June 18, 2010 (Thursday, June 17, 6:00PM PST). This is one day later than the usual release window; we are doing it late due because of a problem with an upstream vendor during our normal release window.
As always, providers can continue to log time to the last team they were logged into during this maintenance window.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.
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I need to submit a very important article to a buyer whom I normally communicate thru odesk message. How will I get his email address? His name is Russell Panella.
Hello, I have tried to access the odesk site but am still getting the maintenance message. However, it has been longer then 30 mins. It has been about an hour I am trying to access.
Iam unable to logged the hours please help me out
i have to submit a design as today is the clients deadline how much time odesk take more ?
It is much longer than 90 minutes!I cannot get in the site still now!I cannot log in to odesk!PLease help me out!
still cant log in….
Why does oDesk ‘go down’ at all? For maintenance or otherwise? It isn’t 1990! Perhaps you should hire someone on oDesk to modernize your back-end infrastructure so that you never have to go offline ever again. ‘Hot-swapping’ software components isn’t rocket science and is standard common practice.
well said.
I would have to agree with you David.
Perhaps these constant downtimes are because they “did” hire someone from oDesk
@Adam Hahahaha, awesome!!
I wish to be that contractor.
This could be true.
It is true.
hey its already june 24! why is the site still inaccessible!?
Well, so many comments. Hope this site will run steady and will run long (it’s money we are talking about:)).
is still unavaible?
still waiting…
Hi!
I needed an employeer, am a single mom, am a poor visual artist (medium-oil-on-canvas) am a feature writer too. Here, in Iligan,Philippines.
what the hell is going on there? Did they drunk or somthing else?
!!!Its 20 minuties still can’t log in!!!
What happened to Odesk. It has been days already that I cannot log in.
why?????????????????? I hate this situation every day
We never know why things happen that cause us inconvience but there is always some reason beyond our knowledge.
im still waiting
I hope we can log today to odesk.com
I am offering help Odesk Team sure its paid only 120 USD / Hourly
Come on! Here I thought I could make withdrawals for my daily allowance. I was planning on withdrawing my balance and yet this happens! Tsk tsk. Please do fix this thing up ASAP! Thanks.
Here we go again. Can you not put a notice on each page when you know maintenance is coming up? I had just clicked send on a long e-mail to an employer and now not only do I have to wait but also recompose.
Uncool.
That why I always press Ctrl+a and Ctrl+c before sending any messages via forms on the sites. You should try it.
bests
I thought I was the only one!
A few things that I think are important to note:
It’s pretty unprofessional of the oDesk development team to not have scheduled the maitenance.. especially when 100k+ buyers and providers need to be able to access their account immediately. This is a live 24/7 business community that is dependent on 100% uptime. Any _professional_ online company knows time scheduled maintenance is imperative even for critical fixes with at least several hours notice.
Secondly, oDesk did not send an e-mail to alert providers or buyers about the downtime and not being able to login for an indefinite (1+ hr) period of time. Still down.
Third, as noted by previous commenters, oDesk prides themselves on the contractors they have hired to build their infrastructure.. which is a pretty negative view of performance from the providers at oDesk.
What’s worse is they have not responded to the comments here expressing very valid concerns.
No notifications on Twitter either.
I think I will reconsider using oDesk for critical projects in the future.
i wish odesk would update their blog every time something like this happens. if there’s really nothing to say except “maintenance going on” then you probably shouldn’t give us a link to this – they’re full of old entries and just confusing!
Well said Ryan
I can’t believe that this was posted on Friday, June 18th, 2010 at 1:06 am and now it is August 25! Over a month and a half?
I am glad I withdrew what I had in time and feel sorry for those who didn’t and have work to do. Not very professional at all.
maintenance is every wednesday. notice is on the upper right hand side. i only made *my* comment because the site has been down for more than 20 minutes, but maintenance is a regular thing. odesk just doesn’t update this blog that’s why it looks like it’s been down this long.
It says 6PM PST, it’s currently 12:35 PST.
It’s been down since 11:00PM PST (1.5hrs)
exactly
exactly what?
Hi, We are unable to log the time. I hope it will be resolved soon.
… now providers are unable to log time?
Can anyone else confirm? I am a buyer.
We can log time now. It works now.
For me, oDesk down exactly 40 minutes, from 2PM to 2h40PM. Back to work
Y can’t we log on during this down time maintenance? It suppose to not affected.
2 successive maintenance in one week!!..why???
Down again.. not surprised in the slightest nothing has changed since I last posted.
I also submitted a support request asking them about some of the concerns here and they basically blew me off.