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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. denial of service by spitstatic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://www.google.com/search?q=livejournal%20outag e&sourceid=mozilla2&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 lj_maintenance: Livejournal Outage ... Livejournal Outage LiveJournal is currently under a Distributed Denial of Service attack, and has been since about 5:30pm PST (1:30 AM GMT) tonight. ... www.livejournal.com/go.bml?journal=lj_ maintenance&itemid=55410&dir=next - 11k - Cached - Similar pages lj_maintenance: LiveJournal Outage Update ... LiveJournal Outage Update The Distributed Denial of Service attack that began on Thursday has not subsided. We were able to make ... www.livejournal.com/community/lj_maintenance/55947 .html - 10k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from www.livejournal.com ]

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  2. Plea to the mods by clotito · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd like to request that the links to LiveJournal be removed from the Slashdot post. It's not as if people don't know how to get there, but at least they are less likely to click just for the hell of it or because they didn't think before hand. I doubt that it will get the servers back up quicker, but at least we won't have to be concerned that we're part of the problem. Thanks for hearing me out.