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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. how ironic by iosmart · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. lol, or does slashdot just take a long time to update? great, i click submit and "The operation timed out while trying to connect to slashdot.org"

  2. Re:What Happened. by khallow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I hope this incident tipped the balance in favor of using UPS's to protect your servers and implementing some sort of off-site data backup.

  3. UPS? by optimusNauta · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What wikipedia needs is some UPS technology between the wall and those critical servers they are spending hours restoring.

  4. more info by focitrixilous+P · · Score: 0, Redundant
    More on power outages at wikipedia

    oh wait.

    Ad revenue ripoff site here

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  5. Re:Stupid question... by almightyjustin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They did use dual power supplies, both circuits were shut off.

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