Data Center Power Failures Mount 100
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1sockchuck writes "It was a bad week to be a piece of electrical equipment inside a major data center. There have been five major incidents in the past week in which generator or UPS failures have caused data center power outages that left customers offline. Generators were apparently the culprit in a Rackspace outage in Dallas and a fire at Fisher Plaza in Seattle (which disrupted e-commerce Friday), while UPS units were cited in brief outages at Equinix data centers in Sydney and Paris on Thursday and a fire at 151 Front Street in Toronto early Sunday. Google App Engine also had a lengthy outage Thursday, but it was attributed to a data store failure."
If only you had listened... (Score:5, Funny)
-B. Mays
Re:"bad week to be a piece of electrical equipment (Score:5, Funny)
Damn you Michael Bay! (Score:5, Funny)
"A blown transformer appears to be the culprit"
I'd heard the new movie was crude, but I didn't realize how crude it actually was!
Re:"bad week to be a piece of electrical equipment (Score:2, Funny)
Indeed, 18465. And we shall get off your lawn as well.
Re:Be Redundant! (Score:3, Funny)
In the event of a nuclear attack, you probably have more pressing issues to deal with than your server uptime.
Re:XO Communications Genesis Hosting (Score:4, Funny)
it was my fault (Score:1, Funny)