Datacenter Fire Takes Out South Korea's Top Two Web Giants (theregister.com) 10
South Korea's two largest domestic internet companies, Naver and Kakao, have experienced significant service interruptions after the datacenter that hosts much of their infrastructure was shut down by a Sunday fire. The Register reports: The datacenter in question is operated by SK C&C, one of the many arms of South Korean conglomerate SK. SK C&C offers a range of cloud and tech infrastructure services, bills itself as a "total digital transformation partner" and operates three datacenters, in which it happily houses client systems. The one in Pangyo, just south of South Korea's capital Seoul, was built in 2014, covers 66,942 square meters, and boasts what SK C&C describes as "Latest/eco-friendly technology". And it caught fire on the weekend. The company has not said what cause the facility to catch fire, nor the extent of the blaze.
But many services from Kakao and Naver were unavailable for many hours at a time, starting from Saturday afternoon. Impact of the outages was wide. The tweet below is an example of one business's reaction. Kakao has acknowledged the outage in a blog post that apologizes for the service interruption and slow restoration, and admits that disaster recovery efforts were delayed. The company has created an Emergency Response Committee and three sub-committees -- one to probe the cause of the incident, another to develop disaster countermeasures, and a third to arrange compensation for stakeholders. Naver's announcement admits that "some functions such as search, news, shopping, cafe, blog, open talk, and smart store center had errors." The company says all services have now been restored.
But many services from Kakao and Naver were unavailable for many hours at a time, starting from Saturday afternoon. Impact of the outages was wide. The tweet below is an example of one business's reaction. Kakao has acknowledged the outage in a blog post that apologizes for the service interruption and slow restoration, and admits that disaster recovery efforts were delayed. The company has created an Emergency Response Committee and three sub-committees -- one to probe the cause of the incident, another to develop disaster countermeasures, and a third to arrange compensation for stakeholders. Naver's announcement admits that "some functions such as search, news, shopping, cafe, blog, open talk, and smart store center had errors." The company says all services have now been restored.
Beavis and Butthead Datacenter (Score:2)
...and boasts what SK C&C describes as "Latest/eco-friendly technology".
Which apparently doesn't include fire suppression.
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You gotta upgrade to MS-Rain-Cloud Premium for that.
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...and boasts what SK C&C describes as "Latest/eco-friendly technology".
Which apparently doesn't include fire suppression.
They had a "fire depression" system. They repeatedly told the fire it was "too big for its building" and "not that hot" ...
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I use a new revolutionary features that only became available last month for my stuff: georedundancy with multiple datacenters and replication between datacenters.
Cause and effect (Score:2)
Kids setting a datacenter on fire just because their favorite band members are going to mandatory military [newsweek.com] draft is just mean.
They used the nitrogen for the smoke machines (Score:2)
and with a shortage of nitrogen in Korea, someone thought it was a good idea to temporarily borrow it from a datacenter because they never catch fire anyway.
Re: Cause and effect (Score:2)
I'm assuming this is standard practice in Korea because of that other Korea, and has been for many years now. What those kids did was stupid. "Boycotting K-pop". K-pop had nothing to do with the mandatory military service in Korea.
I'm all for sticking it to "The Man" but they are going about it in a totally wrong way.
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Further proof that the Romans were right about one thing:
Keep the masses happy by giving them bread and circuses.
Hmm...odd... (Score:2)
OVHCloud lost a major datacenter last year and now SK.
What about Georedundancy? (Score:2)
You know, like a halfway professional operation? Naa, obviously too expensive and nothing will happen surely!