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The Linkup (formerly MediaMax), a spin-off from
Streamload Nirvanix is an American-based provider of business phone systems, VoIP services, hosted PBX, SIP Trunks, and cloud storage services headquartered in San Diego, California, United States. The company offers a variety of business phone solutions ...
(now
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), was a "social network for file sharing" and a service that let users send, receive, and store large amounts of data via the web. It was one of the first
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based storage services (winning numerous awards) and is now one of the largest failures resulting in user data loss.Loss of customer data spurs closure of online storage service 'The Linkup'
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Failures

On June 15, 2007 a system administrator's script accidentally misidentified and deleted "good data" along with the "dead data" of some 3.5 million former user accounts and files. It took until October 2007 to complete a partial restore of the data (much of it being irretrievably lost).MediaMax/TheLinkup death spiral dogs Nirvanix
/ref> The Linkup finally experienced a "meltdown" on July 10, 2008 which left about 20,000 paying subscribers without their digital music, video, and photo files from August 8, 2008. In the site's place is a message saying ''We're sorry, but MediaMax and The Linkup are now closed.'' with an affiliate link to competitor Box.net.


See also

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(formerly Streamload) is the company from which The Linkup was spun off and which hosted the data *
Savvis Savvis is a subsidiary company of Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink) that sells managed hosting and colocation services headquartered in Town and Country, Missouri. The company owns more than 50 data centers spread across North Americ ...
is the company responsible for the application and database.


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