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Power Outage Takes Wikimedia Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the problem-with-non-absolute-power dept.

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."

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  1. This is why you don't turn Google down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They'll turn the lights off.

  2. Coincidence... ;) by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Coincidentally, the foundation is in the middle of a fundraising drive to pay for new servers.

    "You see, guys? This is what could happen if we ever ran out of money. Now cough up some dough!"

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    The coolest voice ever.
    1. Re:Coincidence... ;) by xsupergr0verx · · Score: 5, Funny

      So... slashdot the offsite backup?

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  3. News Update by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    After returning from the power outage, the servers have just been slash-fried.

  4. More information here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found this useful information about power outages:
    http://www.wikipedia.org/search?/power_o utage

    1. Re:More information here... by daveo0331 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Unfortunately that site you linked to appears to be slashdotted, or something. Here's a mirror:

      http://www.answers.com/topic/power-outage-1

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  5. Join me, my friends! by mctk · · Score: 4, Funny

    A power outage has taken down wikipedia! as a community we must carry the torch!

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    Paul Grosfield - the quicker picker upper.
  6. Aaaaand... by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Meanwhile, the devs are working fairly furiously to get it back up

    Don't worry, we'll take care of your backup servers in the meantime. ;)

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    The coolest voice ever.
  7. lame quotes rule by mrpuffypants · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's as though 300,000 people cried out and were suddently silenced ...

    and then somebody diffed the change and made them speak again

  8. Re:What Happened. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Real datacenters don't have PeeCees.

    Oh, maybe one, out at the guard's desk.

  9. Re:mysql bad at disaster recovery? by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Funny

    So we have to take the master offline (actually just acquire a write lock on the DB, it can still answer SELECTs), tar up its (massive) database, scp it to the slaves, start the master, stop the slaves, untar the database, restart the slaves, and restart replication.

    You forgot the part where you have to take the chicken across first, because the fox won't eat the grain if you leave them alone.

  10. :::eyes UPS under table::: by shoemakc · · Score: 4, Funny

    :::eyes my UPS::::

    ::::ponders for a momment::::

    :::eyes the serial cable that gracefully shuts down said computer in the event of a power failure::::

    :::ponders some more::::

    :::eyes the spare UPS sitting in the corner that used to be connected to a database server::::

    Hmm, I think i'm almost onto something here, but i just can't seem to nail it down...

    -Chris

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