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July 25, 2007
a plausible explanation...
I'm inclined to believe this report, although 365 Main denies it:
365 Main, a datacenter on the edge of San Francisco's Financial District, is popular with Soma startups for its proximity and its state-of-the-art facilities. Or it used to be, anyway, until a power outage took down sites including Craigslist, Six Apart's TypePad and LiveJournal blogging sites, local listings site Yelp, and blog search engine Technorati. The cause? You won't believe it.A source close to the company says:
"Someone came in shitfaced drunk, got angry, went berserk, and fucked up a lot of stuff. There's an outage on 40 or so racks at minimum."
As this article points out, datacenters such as this have multiple levels of power redundancy, not so much so a customer can keep their operations running indefinitely, but long enough that they can get in and shut down their stuff cleanly. That would explain why it took so long for 6A to get operations back up.
Of course, PG&E was no help here, either, but these datacenters charge $50-$100/month for 1U of server rack space, and there are 40 units of space in a rack. If 40 racks were affected, that's 1500 or 1600 servers.
Posted by Edward J. Branley at July 25, 2007 6:14 AM
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