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Laughing Squid says 365 Main went down too. That’s crazy… I can understand our datacenter going down for an hour, or United Layer going down for a day, but 365 Main??? WTF?
It was a transformer explosion.
365 Main claims to have TEN of these 2.1 MW Hitec Coninuous Power Systems, and three 20,000 gallon deisel tanks. A lot of good that did.
Could this be why Netflix was offline for almost 24 hours???
Yup, Netflix was down for the same reason…
Here is a pic of the nerd convention at 365 Main today:
http://tastic.brillig.org/~jwb/dorks.jpg
[...] According to my people on the ground in San Francisco, a transformer explosion was the cause. [...]
Sorry, I was wrong I think. The netflix outage seems to predate the power outage. Laughing Squid has updated their post to point to this article, which claims that the netflix outage is unrelated.
Talked to some people working at 365 main to get their racks up.. it seems only part of 365 main went down.. heard lots of bad things about the competence of their staff. Can’t believe people are paying so much for that crap.
apparently this is what really happened…
Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash
okay, this is only tangentially related but it cracked me up (and demonstrates how fragile our networks are!)
from the skype blog http://tinyurl.com/ytlck3
“On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update.
The high number of restarts affected Skype’s network resources. This caused a flood of log-in requests, which, combined with the lack of peer-to-peer network resources, prompted a chain reaction that had a critical impact. “