Many of you have noticed that Blackle has gone down and are wondering why. First of all I want to thank all of you for showing interest in Blackle and supporting the energy saving search engine.
For anyone reading this that doesn’t know what Blackle is, it is an energy conscious search, based on the theory that a black screen uses less energy than a white screen. The real point of Blackle is to help remind everyone of the need to save energy in small ways every time you do a search (or access the web, if you have set Blackle as your homepage).
So why are you getting a 403 error page when you try to visit blackle.com?
Blackle has been crashing our servers due the number of people trying to visit it in the last few days. We are adding server capacity to get it back up ASAP.
I hope to get this sorted out very soon. Thanks for supporting Blackle.
I have set Blackle as my homepage!
so…no comments for 10 years! OK, what has happened to Blackle, is the server down for good?
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the comment, we had a technical issue but I am happy to say Blackle is back up again. Sorry for the inconvenience.
P.S. This is the first outage in the past 10 years (since the early days) hence the lack of comments in the interim.
Cheers,
Toby
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