UPCZilla has had several instances of major downtime in recent weeks. We know what the problem is (it’s related to DNS servers) and we have implemented certain fixes now which ought to resolve the problem in the medium term. However we will be looking in the longer term for a more robust solution. It seems …
For a few days UPCZilla was only showing results from a limited number of retailers – basically eBay and Amazon. Although to be honest that pretty much accounts for most of the online retail market, we still like to show a broader range of retailers when we are comparing prices. So now there are once …
Apologies if you tried contacting us recently and you never got a reply. We weren’t being rude, we try to respond to all emails but it seems our contact form stopped working at some point (we’re not sure how long ago though, to be honest). It’s now running again here: https://www.upczilla.com/contact/ – we welcome any …
We were a bit short-staffed over summer and as a result some server maintenance didn’t get done properly and UPCZilla was struggling to run properly. OK, we’ll just come clean, our server ran out of space, a problem we can normally easily resolve, but with no-one around to monitor these things, the server has been …
We’ve hit another milestone – we now definitely have four million unique UPCs/products in our database. The number has been fluctuating a bit because, as we have mentioned before, determining the exact number can be oddly inexact, and also we have to clean out invalid items etc. every now and then so it takes a …
Apologies to everyone who couldn’t access UPCZilla.com and our UPC database yesterday. We experienced some major and unexpected downtime – I think the longest period of downtime we have ever had. Actually it was not the site that was down, that was working fine, it was some problem with the DNS servers (we are still …
After some brief downtime this morning we got our servers upgraded. Over the last year or two we have tried to squeeze every last ounce of performance out of UPCZilla, but the increasing popularity of the site has meant that we had to finally give in and upgrade, as everything was constantly maxed out. Our …
Just a heads-up to let you know that we will be experiencing brief downtime hopefully lasting 15 minutes at most, sometime between 6 and 7am EST. This is to upgrade our server to a faster setup – hopefully most people will be in bed and won’t notice.
Apologies to anyone using our Bulk UPC tool – due to unusually high server load at the moment our (free) resources are being severely stretched and it is impacting the site as a whole. Therefore we have been forced to slow down the rate of indexing by about 3x in order to ensure that our …
We have just rolled out a major update to the way UPCZilla retrieves product data from eBay (due to their release of a new API and impending deprecation of the old one). To the user, this should be almost completely seamless, you shouldn’t notice anything different, except the minor detail that eBay products now too …