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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. slashdot has repeated 503 errors, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and search.pl is constantly being trashed by distributed xanga botnets. perhaps michael wasn't quite prepared to be an editor of slashdot?

    1. Re:slashdot has repeated 503 errors, by stupidfoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      How is this a troll? It's funny that an "editor" at site with as many problems as slashdot has feels that it isn't amazingly hypocritical to mock another site that is currently having problems. People in glass houses indeed.

      Slashdot has semi-major problems almost every day. 503 errors, "nothing for you to see here" annoyances, and a search engine that goes down more than a Thai hooker.

  2. What a cock by realdpk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Perhaps Six Apart wasn't quite prepared for the responsibilities of a website of this size?"

    Perhaps shit happens, and a blog service doesn't warrant the necessary investment to survive whatever caused this outage?

  3. Re:./ed !!!! Server Reboot Time? by bradfitz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They all came back up when the power came back.

    But we intentionally don't have databases come back up on boot because if there was a blip, we want to do an integrity check first. (we run InnoDB, so it's ACID, but we're paranoid ...)

    We have clusters of 2 identical databases in separate cabinets, separate switches, separate Internap power feeds... so normally losing one database in each cluster doesn't matter: the other one gets used. But when we lose every single database, in all clusters, all at once... that's the time to be paranoid and double check stuff.