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LiveJournal Servers Go Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-mostly-dead dept.

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."

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  1. Lights out by r_glen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like someone was taking a nap over at Internap

  2. The Pain ... by webfiend · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can't imagine the withdrawals I'm going through. It's like the great Slashdot brownouts of '98.

    I need my fix, man!

    1. Re:The Pain ... by thoughtcriminal87 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or the great Slashdot 503s of '04

    2. Re:The Pain ... by DrEldarion · · Score: 5, Funny

      Honestly! Now we have to wait a day or so to find out what MelissaMinx492 ate for breakfast today!

    3. Re:The Pain ... by MikeXpop · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't worry, it was waffles. But her dad used the last of the syrup. Man, he never can think of her needs, can he? I mean really, what's his problem?

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      Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
    4. Re:The Pain ... by RichardX · · Score: 4, Funny

      Man, I need them to get those servers back up! I've got a whole pile of journals to not read. I'm getting behind on my ignoring

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      Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
  3. Elsewhere by jm92956n · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!"

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    An effective signature identifies a particular user amongst a base of thousands.
    1. Re:Elsewhere by barryman_5000 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Thats right, sometimes I go by the name John.

    2. Re:Elsewhere by LGagnon · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is LiveJournal we're talking about; I think his spelling came out pretty accurate.

  4. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the collective IQ of the internet has raised about 20 points.

  5. sounds like good news by freakybob · · Score: 4, Funny

    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..."

  6. A disturbance I feel by philkerr · · Score: 4, Funny

    I feel a great disturbance in the force..... It's as if a million bloggers cried out all at once..... and became silent.

  7. Gee, I wonder... by Rie+Beam · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  8. Look at me! Look at me! by Cyburbia · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  9. A great disturbance in the Force... by YowzaTheYuzzum · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... as if millions of teenage girls suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

    1. Re:A great disturbance in the Force... by drsquare · · Score: 3, Funny

      >>Livejournal is something like 65:35 female:male.
      >It's cute to see such naivety still on the internet. Never played any MMORPGs, huh?

      This is different to MMORPGs, MMORPGs are generally a male domain, with men pretending to be women to get favours. On the other hand, blogs involve things women like doing, i.e. fucking going on and on about shit no-one cares about.

  10. "LiveJournal Servers Go Down" by PornMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
  11. The Big Red Switch by rah1420 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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    Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
  12. Re:./ed !!!! Server Reboot Time? by cHiphead · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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    This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
  13. It's strange by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Remember when teenagers were happy when people couldn't read all the personal details in their diary?

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    One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.