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Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage
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).
im in ur datacentr
trashin ur racks
There's a report here that "Flesh-eating zombies are prowling the streets"
We are working with our co-location facility managers to assess why it is back-up power generators failed to provide the necessary back-up power to prevent our site going down. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by our site being unavailable this afternoon.
I think that's admin speak for:
I warned these idiots eight months ago during my review that the datacenter had outgrown its generator capacity. But did they listen? Fuck no, they just kept counting money and worrying about the bottom line. The beancounters looked at me like I'd asked them for a blowjob from their grandmothers when I submitted the workup for additional generator capacity. And now that the shit's hit the fan, whose ass are they screaming for? Screw this, I'm applying at Taco Bell.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Impossible, they would never commit suicide without posting a note in the form of bad angst-filled poetry to their blog first. There is no chance any of them will actually kill themselves until the site is back online.
Press Release on Red Envelope having 2 years of uptime at 365 Main - San Francisco from today: http://365main.com/press_releases/pr_7_24_07_red_e nvelope.html
Phew... I was worried the internet got slashdotted.
It was hard to read through that block of text, but looking closely, it explains why:
"Officials say the power outage may affect some websites, including the site that hosts Slashdot.org's preview button."
It all seems to be back up now.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
I tried to mod the article "-1 Not Redundant" but it wasn't an option. And I didn't have mod points. At least my inability to function only warrants a comment, rather than a slashdot article.
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
88.88% uptime causes less outage than 99.9%? I don't follow your math. Did you do it with an Intel chip, by any chance?
Well, according to their self-congratulatory press release, issued earlier today, they were allegedly at 100% uptime for the past two years.
;-)
The irony of issuing a press release like that, and then to be hit with a power outage and apparent simultaneous failure of all backup systems later that day, is beyond measure.
I don't know about God, but it's enough to make me believe in karma.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
You forgot one very important component, the car battery used to START THE GENERATOR. I've been to many sites whereby the battery that would start the generator is a) dead or b) missing.
Of course one of those sites failed high up in a mountain range in a mid-winter storm (Tieton, 1978) when the commercial power failed, and the starter battery for the diesel froze.
On Black Bute in Oregon, a communications site went out in the middle of winter following a power outage. The generator ran a short while and shut down because it overheated. The air intake 20 feet in the air was covered in snow.
The truth shall set you free!
Time to upgrade the cardswipe system to also require a brethalyzer..
*swipe*
*bip* *beep* *beep* *boop* *bleep*
[deep breath]
*whoosh*
Alcohol Level: 0.15
*beeeeeeeep*
Damnit!!
There's no place like
cold as hell
I think I see the flaw in your plan.
Slightly disreputable, albeit gregarious