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Motorboat Cruiser
01-14-2005, 10:36 PM
Well sure, I sign up for Live Journal and crash the whole damn thing. Story of my life. ;)

I noticed them down earlier today. Apparently it is more serious than I thought.


Our data center (Internap, the same one we've been at for many years) lost all its power, including redundant backup power, for some unknown reason. (unknown to me, at least) We're currently dealing with bringing our 100+ servers back online. Not fun. We're not happy about this. Sorry... :-/ More details later.

Update #1, 7:35 pm PST: we have power again, and we're working to assess the state of the databases. The worst thing we could do right now is rush the site up in an unreliable state. We're checking all the hardware and data, making sure everything's consistent. Where it's not, we'll be restoring from recent backups and replaying all the changes since that time, to get to the current point in time, but in good shape. We'll be providing more technical details later, for those curious, on the power failure (when we learn more), the database details, and the recovery process. For now, please be patient. We'll be working all weekend on this if we have to.


Oh well, it sounds like it won't be down for too long and they at least have backups of the data to work with. Seems odd that the power backup systems would lose power as well though.

Disneyphile
01-14-2005, 10:39 PM
Well sure, I sign up for Live Journal and crash the whole damn thing. Story of my life. ;) Ah-ha! So, it was YOU! :p

I almost thought it was me, because it crashed right when I submitted an overly mushy entry about mine and FP's 11-month anniversary. Maybe their power source melted from all the loooooooooove. ;) :D

Ghoulish Delight
01-14-2005, 10:39 PM
Sounds like they've got a RAID system with logging. Smart folks.

Not Afraid
01-14-2005, 10:54 PM
Oooh, the geek talk lights my fire, babe! ;)

Gn2Dlnd
01-15-2005, 12:38 AM
HA! I told you, just like Talk Like a Pirate Day. Must be dinnertime at the Pallor/Delight household!

Motorboat Cruiser
01-15-2005, 01:25 AM
I almost thought it was me, because it crashed right when I submitted an overly mushy entry about mine and FP's 11-month anniversary. Maybe their power source melted from all the loooooooooove. ;) :D

I'm now convinced that it was your fault.

Disneyphile
01-15-2005, 02:20 AM
I'm now convinced that it was your fault. Woohoo!!! My mushiness has evolved into a strong enough force to melt LiveJournal!! :D

MickeyLumbo
01-15-2005, 02:25 AM
you are such a romantic girl. i will always remember you and frodo smooching in the pool on the 4th. good times!:)

Motorboat Cruiser
01-15-2005, 08:32 PM
Woohoo!!! My mushiness has evolved into a strong enough force to melt LiveJournal!! :D

Not quite strong enough.....yet. They appear to be up and running again. :) Still, I suppose it's just a matter of time before your musihiness overwhelmes them completely.

Freaky Tiki
01-15-2005, 08:37 PM
Lets hope that doesn't happen, yay livejournal is back up! How exciting is that!