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MySpace Down Due To Power Surge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the those-electrons-aren't-moving dept.

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.

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  1. Wow... by rizzo320 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There must be something more to this. Wouldn't a site with this many subscribers be co-located?

  2. Re:Strange happenings at MySpace by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Re:Strange happenings at MySpace by darjen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  4. Christ, you're stupid. by apparently · · Score: 5, Insightful
    They lose money from lost advertising revenue, but they don't really have anybody to answer to except themselves

    They have to answer to the advertisers. The advertisers are their customers. The teenie-boppers are the product that they sell to the advertisers.