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LiveJournal Servers Go Down
Wind writes "According to any journal hosted off of LiveJournal.com, the LiveJournal data center Internap has suffered a critical power failure, leaving all of LiveJournal and its content temporarily offline and requiring the revival of 100+ servers. Perhaps Six Apart wasn't quite prepared for the responsibilities of a website of this size? Updated information is posted here."
Sounds like someone was taking a nap over at Internap
You can't imagine the withdrawals I'm going through. It's like the great Slashdot brownouts of '98.
I need my fix, man!
In related news, 6,000 teen-age girls were heard yelling "OMG! WTF! How will John know I life him if I can't blog about it!"
An effective signature identifies a particular user amongst a base of thousands.
...the collective IQ of the internet has raised about 20 points.
but that's ONE HELL of a Slashdotting! :)
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Man I am sooo putting this in my LiveJournal!
so it's deadjournal now ?
Well now the millions (?) of users might actually have something to write about when the servers are back up. "Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier..."
Where will I write about my depression over this event?
Oh. Slashdot.
That's what you get when you hire Tim Allen as your electrician at a Data Center.
Al Borland was nailing Heidi behind the stage when the outage occured.
Where were the APC backups?
I feel a great disturbance in the force..... It's as if a million bloggers cried out all at once..... and became silent.
The population of depessed pre-teens has just dropped by 20%
It's not like most LiveJournal user's have enough to worry about, here's something for most LJ users to get melodramatic about. I'm serious, randomly pick 5 LiveJournal blogs, and I guarantee 4 out of 5 are going to be "Fuck the World" posts.
Update from the site:
"Update #1, 7:35 pm PST: we're up on 'dirty' power for now (it works, but it's unreliable)".
Congrats to LiveJournal for assembly a coal generator in a record time.
live journal is dark like my soul like my heart a void its link is cut just like i'll be doing to my arm i blame my parents
Oh man, that would be one *fantastic* search engine! Is there a Google beta for this?
... as if millions of teenage girls suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Brad, get back to work! I need my friends page!
LiveJournal Servers Go Down
With thousands of teenage girls unable to ponder in an open forum whether or not to blow their boyfriends, thousands of teenage girls go down.
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
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Oh no. Not a beating. There's a much better use to which we should be putting that irony stick to help Michael out.
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
Someone probably hit the big red switch on the wall, the one covered in a plastic case
That does happen. I remember working at Purolator Courier's data center in NJ back in -- oh, geez, mid-80s some time. I was a third shift print operator, helped out with the mag tape library too. One night the trouble alarm went off on the fire suppression panel. We'd been having trouble with it all week, and the alarm guy was due in in the morning. One of the newbie operators -- the only one at the console at the time, the others being on a smoke break or asleep in the tape library -- panicked and went over to the annunciator panel. He opened it as I watched him from the console area. I think he thought the halon was about to dump because he reached around the panel and instead of hitting the halon dump abort, he hit the emergency power cutoff.
BLAM! It was as if a firecracker went off as all the breakers tripped and the fans came to a sighing halt. Both on this floor -- the one with the console and the tape drives -- and the floor above, with the CPU and the disk farms. Dead as a doornail.
Now, this was Purolator COURIER. We had AIRPLANES coming in to land at Indy center and as of this moment, no way to tell the crews which gate to go to, where to unload their stuff, or how to sort it.
Not only that, but this was an IBM mainframe shop -- S/390, the Big Iron, with 3380 disk drives. You don't just flip the power switch back on. An emergency power cutoff blows breakers in the power supplies on those DASD strings. The IBM Field Engineer was duly dispatched and arrived with cases of breakers the next morning. But we were still dark when I got off shift the following morning.
The next night a brand new plexiglass cover was mounted over the Big Red Switch.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
you want beer and pizza? email me an address/zipcode at the sig email and ill do my part to support restoring lj.
;)
if my wife cant post this weekend, im gonna hear about it. and not even be able to post my lj about getting yelled it about lj being down as if i caused the power outage myself.
not really.
well maybe.
Cheers.
This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Remember when teenagers were happy when people couldn't read all the personal details in their diary?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
"I have felt a great disturbance in the force; as if a million voices suddenly cried out in terror."
Those poor, poor children.
| ...the poor APC UPS batteries weren't able to hold up the 150 servers I run.
|
| When the power came back on, we had 143 servers back on-line in ten minutes.
| We had 149 on line in fifteen minutes. We had two servers (leased dedicateds)
| that requires some file system repairs before they would come back on-line, but
| that task was finished 30 minutes after power restoration.
|
| What's so hard about that?
What's so hard about that? Well... not everyone who has 150 servers can get 151 of them back online in 30 minutes.