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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 DrEldarion · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

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

  4. 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.