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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).
It is from your terrible spelling that I can tell you are a "gamer".
A corner sweet shop in James St London has lost its internet connection apparently because a 4 year old had a tantrum when he got only 3 lollies for his 20 pence. So all you sugar holics on James St have to walk another 200 meters to May St. Sheesh, must be a slow news day.
FalconStor's IPStor software makes this problem go away by backing up the data to a remote datacenter. Lots of people do this; I spent three years wandering around the country installing the software and hacking it into blue chip companies. It was a blast to make people more secure than they'd ever been..
the software offers you instant disaster recovery on the remote site, with a backup that is only as old as the network data. It supports oracle and microsoft sql server and exchange server, clustering, linux, suse, solaris, hpux, aix... www.falconstor.com
It also comes in an active-active "failover" mode to provide full service to all the systems 2 pcs can (40 fileservers, databases, etc, or 200 desktop PCs)... with the ability for one server to take over in case the other one has a hardware problem. So you will always be functional, and so will your backups... anyway I don't work for them anymore, but your description of a fully secure datacenter makes me twitch!