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Power Outage Takes Wikimedia Down
Baricom writes "Just a few weeks after a major power outage took out well-known blogging service LiveJournal for several hours, almost all of Wikimedia Foundation's services are offline due to a tripped circuit breaker at a different colo. Among other services, Wikimedia runs the well-known Wikipedia open encyclopedia. Coincidentally, the foundation is in the middle of a fundraising drive to pay for new servers. They have established an off-site backup of the fundraising page here until power returns."
Nothing like a PR stunt such as "losing power" (??) to really kickoff your fund-raising campaign.
If this is how open-source operations are going to conduct themselves, then frankly I don't see why I should contribute at all.
it obviously wasn't important enough for them to get quality service, so why is it important to me when they screw up?
...and I found out that no one who matters cares about this. Thank you, move along, nothing to see here.
No database can guarantee data integrity in the case of a power failure. What they should have been using is a UPS.
Haha, I get it.
Googel cheap bastards, Wikipaedo cheap incopetent bastards.
Serves em right.
Nothing of Wikipaedo has any substance.
Because they had a fucking BACKUP GENERATOR, nitwit. It just so happens that this outage was so severe it took the generator with it.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
UHH...Oracle replication is MUCH more tedious, time consuming and error prone than mysql. It's also almost a guarentee that any loss of an oracle server will require recovery. Mysql can handle reboots well.
Not sure about DB2, but I'm pretty sure postgres is more difficult, considering it's not even native to the software (Last time I checked).
BTW, write a damn script. Mysql was written for unix, unix thrives on scripts. If you can't handle writing a script, why the hell are you a DB admin?
Great! Let's just through 7 or 8 more patches in postgres, you know full text/replication/clustering, etc. and we'll have another beautiful product like qmail! I can't wait!
I just love patching software all day just to get it to a semi-usable state, oh and what about the administrators after me? I'm sure they're just jumping for joy over the stickness of the duct tape that I've got all over the servers.
So they saved a ton of money by choosing Linux as their OS, then don't invest the savings into redundancy.
Great work.