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Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage

Posted by kdawson on from the or-was-it-a-drunk dept.

corewtfux writes with word of a major outage apparently centered on 365 Main, a datacenter on the edge of San Francisco's Financial District. Valleywag initially claimed that a drunken person had gotten in and damaged 40 racks, but an update from Technorati's Dave Sifry says the problem is a widespread power outage. Sites affected include Technorati, Netflix (these display nice "We're Dead" pages), Typepad, LiveJournal, Sun.com, and Craigslist (these just time out).

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  1. I know by eclectro · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    FTA

    Whoever it is, while we like how you roll in theory, in practice, we'd appreciate it if you laid off the servers running websites we actually use. I know, let's post this article to slashdot, digg, and Reddit and complete the trifecta!!
    --
    Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
  2. Gross malfeasance by The+Man · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Anyone caught out by this was negligent to his company's shareholders and should be in civil court tomorrow morning facing lawsuits as well as automatic termination for cause. Either the people running the data center are outright liars (likely) or the people who bought their services are criminally incompetent (all but certain) or both. These problems are easily prevented; indeed, they are solved problems. There is absolutely no reason for PG&E to fail, no reason at all for a data center to go black, and no excuse whatsoever for a service provider to fail. Every single individual responsible for this should have his assets taken by his customers, be immediately terminated, and then put on trial for reckless endangerment, criminal negligence, breach of contract, and grand theft. If they're lucky we'll agree to put them away in San Quentin for the rest of their lives. If I were in charge, their dead bodies would already be hanging in front of the Ferry Building as an example to others. This is unacceptable and inexcusable, and I strongly encourage everyone affected to demand accountability from top to bottom. If you do not, problems of this type will increase in frequency and severity as people realise they can get away with more.

    1. Re:Gross malfeasance by The+Man · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      So what? My anger comes not from the loss of any particular service but from the fundamentals - accountability, passion for a job well done, and a sound infrastructural basis for economic prosperity. Why don't you actually spend 3 seconds thinking about the problem before you assume my anger arises from angst over a social networking site? I realise this is Slashdot, but we're not ALL 13-year-old living in our parents' basements. Some of us have even, GASP, managed data centers and planned our companies' geographic redundancy strategies. Perhaps that's just a peril of posting here - even if you know what you're talking about, everyone assumes by default that you don't. So how about you STFU and think, eh?