Power Outage and Downtime
September 13th, 2005
What a fun little ride that was yesterday. I’d be tempted to say it was a bit of a hoot. Talk about your slight power outages. Sheesh. Can you imagine? LA, powerless for 2+ hours. The plus side, no looting — at least I haven’t heard of any at this point in time.
The downside? A majority of hosting providers are located in LA and this could be considered a major disruption in service. It was funny for me though. I was so focused on finding a solution to an interesting little bit of code that I didn’t even notice that I stopped receiving email for about 2 hours. Yes, I pretty much missed the power outage.
Of course when I finally realized I wasn’t getting my email the proverbial dookie hit the fan. It’s a little strange to me though, the power was only out for about 2 hours but I was still only able to get my email and website back online at about 8pm mountain time. Oh well, I guess that’s why I pay those sys admins at (mt).
September 16th, 2005 at 6:24 am
Yeah all my crap was down. Oh well, these things are expected once and awhile.
September 16th, 2005 at 7:33 am
That’s true. At least now that it has happened, it’s almost a guarantee that our sites will be up the next time a similar incident happens due to all the hosts upgrading their systems.