Posted on 07/24/2007 10:55:22 PM PDT by HAL9000
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We've now learned more about the outage at 365 Main's San Francisco datacenter that knocked some of the Web's most popular sites offline. The latest theory: An employee, reportedly drunk, hit the emergency-power-off switch in 365 Main's Colo 4 room. Other sites located in other rooms were unaffected. This isn't the first time 365 Main has suffered an EPO-induced outage; a major one still remembered by customers occurred back in April 2005, and another took place last year. After the jump, a gallery of the carnage caused, and a roundup of reactions.Some of the affected websites -- most of which are back online -- played it straight with customers, like Craigslist. Others offered the usual pack of lies websites trot out. AdBrite, for example, tried to claim that the outage was due to "scheduled maintenance," and RedEnvelope, the e-commerce gifts site which just today crowed about moving all of its Web operations to 365 Main, said the outage was a systems upgrade. Busted!
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(Excerpt) Read more at valleywag.com ...
This reminds me of an incident when a fellow was carrying a ladder out of the computer room and accidentally bumped the Big Red Switch above the door. The Big Red Switch was installed to perform an emergency shutdown on the mainframe in case of a fire. It took a while to recover from that mess.
Colo room? I don't need to know
(in real life I know what it means, but in SanFran life, I don't need to know)
A. It's San Francisco. Normal people don't care. Everyone there is infected or soon will be. All the normal people have fled.
B. The link, at valleywag.com? It read like an Andy Dick monologue.
> Others offered the usual pack of lies websites trot out.
It’s called “marketing”.
A major West Coast hospital chain had consolidated its dozens of data centers into a single building in Phoenix, putting all its eggs in a very carefully watched basket. The consolidated data center had all kinds of power backups: multiple grids, powerful batteries, diesel generators. One day a technician was maintaining the battery unit when he dropped a wrench, shorting out the batteries and bringing the entire multistate system to a halt for a whole day.
Not to repeat myself, repeat myself...
Google and Yahoo - Can't access
Can't access many blogs either including my own or Iowahawk
Try Clusty.
I was in that blackout today in SF—I’m on the 8th floor of a 13 story building and when the power went out and the alarms went off I was the 4th person out of the building, from way up on the 8th floor. . .it’s so amazing to me how no one feels any urgency to get out of a building with a fire alarm going—after 9-11 I always think of those crowded stairwells. I really don’t want a building coming down on my head. . .
Sounds like one of the perks of the job is the ability to drink on the job.
SixStep (the colo site for LiveJournal) went down, taking LJ with it. I can’t wait to watch the fun as they get it back up...
i see a vision of homer sitting at his console at the power plant.
The servers and batch processors (about 50 windows servers, a few Novell servers, and a VAX cluster, plus at least 100 batch processing PCs.) took about an hour and a half to bring back up!
Mark
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