Tet's Journal: Livejournal downtime

From a recent LJ news item: Our San Francisco data center is taking a little downtime for power maintenance, which means so are we

Errr... why? For a site as busy as LJ to be based solely in one data centre seems to be bordering on negligence to me. Sure, there are some issues with having multiple data centres, particularly if you're running them in active-active mode (I know, I've done it). But to not at least have an active-passive setup with a standby data centre? I don't get it. Why would you want to put all your eggs in one basket like that?

Also... Outage from power maintenance? In a datacentre? That's why they have redundant power, so you don't have to have an outage when they need to do stuff like that. I'd be horrified if my data centre did that to me.

Yeah, but

[Captain Splendid]

In your experience running servers, you're probably working for a corp which can "afford" no downtime. LJ feels they can. A bit of apples and oranges IMO.

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[Tet]

For the time being, I'm keeping my online personalities separate. I use LJ for real world friends, and Slashdot and Multiply for those I mostly know online. I'm leaning towards relaxing that, but I'm still not 100% convinced I want to mix the two yet. I certainly wish the journal circle had gone to LJ rather than Multiply, though. The latter still sucks, but it's where everyone else is.