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MySpace Down Due To Power Surge
BenelliShooter writes "MySpace.Com - Undergoing Maintenance
"hey everyone! there's been a power outage in our data center. we're in the process of fixing it right now, so sit tight. -Tom"
That about says it... I suppose we'll see if they had proper back-ups. " Hah. The site says it was supposed to be back up as of ... 7:40 PST PM. Which was something like close to nine hours ago.
There must be something more to this. Wouldn't a site with this many subscribers be co-located?
I use this to maintain loose connections with friends from highschool/college.
Honestly, you know how addictive this site is if someone posts a story about it going offline to Slashdot and it's accepted!
That site was making some crazy loads of cash. The advertising department was saying "we need web traffic!" and the developers were saying "oh, we'll get you web traffic!" and now the hardware department is saying "wtf?"
Perhaps MySpace should be renamed to IcarusSpace?
My work here is dung.
Well done Hemos, you just gave everyone another chance to slag off MySpace. People need to remember that just because something isn't for them (we have our blogs people), that is isn't instantly lame. Sure the web designs suck and 90% of the people there are guys just out for vaginal offering (like slashdot would be any different if it had women).
Just remember, not everyone has the same values as Slashdot. A lot of the people on MySpace don't care if it's ugly or poorly written because they're having fun. Now as much as we geeks like to claim to be superior to everything short of the pope riding a giant panda, we need to learn to accept others values even if we don't take them.
MySpace's subtitle should be "The social person's easy-blog" and maybe geeks here would grasp it's name better, but wouldn't that be dumbing it down so a geek would understand it? Hmmm....
I like muppets.
If a bank goes down you have major problems, if a social networking site goes down someone might not be able to reply to a message and misses a night getting drunk. You have to remember these arn't the same type of things and so majorly backing up MySpace isn't going to do MySpace any real favours. Where as a bank it's basic common sense.
Remember when Livejournal went down? It didn't make a jot of difference now several months later.
I like muppets.
If a bank goes down you have major problems, if a social networking site goes down someone might not be able to reply to a message and misses a night getting drunk
It's not about end users missing a silly message. It's about loosing millions of dollars in revenue when people aren't visiting your site.
They have to answer to the advertisers. The advertisers are their customers. The teenie-boppers are the product that they sell to the advertisers.
That is funny but it brings up a point. Why the hell do parents let their kids on the internet unattended? If a child meets an online predator online its the parents fault for letting their kid on the internet alone. I think the parents should be taken to court instead. Please tell people to watch their kids online.
Calls like that happen. I used to do ISP tech support. The site could be down and its always the ISPs fault.
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