LiveJournal Servers Go Down 596
Wind writes "According to any journal hosted off of LiveJournal.com, the LiveJournal data center Internap has suffered a critical power failure, leaving all of LiveJournal and its content temporarily offline and requiring the revival of 100+ servers. Perhaps Six Apart wasn't quite prepared for the responsibilities of a website of this size? Updated information is posted here."
Lights out (Score:5, Funny)
The Pain ... (Score:5, Funny)
I need my fix, man!
Elsewhere (Score:4, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Sucks for LiveJournal... (Score:2, Funny)
emo (Score:1, Funny)
i don't get it (Score:2, Funny)
sounds like good news (Score:4, Funny)
ANGST!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Oh. Slashdot.
That's what you get (Score:2, Funny)
Al Borland was nailing Heidi behind the stage when the outage occured.
Where were the APC backups?
Re:In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
So just imagine the result of when Slashdot dies!
A disturbance I feel (Score:4, Funny)
Tomorrow's news (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The Pain ... (Score:4, Funny)
Melodramatic (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Elsewhere (Score:3, Funny)
Gee, I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
"Update #1, 7:35 pm PST: we're up on 'dirty' power for now (it works, but it's unreliable)".
Congrats to LiveJournal for assembly a coal generator in a record time.
Look at me! Look at me! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:slashdot has repeated 503 errors, (Score:2, Funny)
Oh man, that would be one *fantastic* search engine! Is there a Google beta for this?
A great disturbance in the Force... (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tomorrow's news (Score:2, Funny)
Re:./ed !!!! Server Reboot Time? (Score:1, Funny)
"LiveJournal Servers Go Down" (Score:5, Funny)
With thousands of teenage girls unable to ponder in an open forum whether or not to blow their boyfriends, thousands of teenage girls go down.
Blog, blog, blog, blog... (Score:3, Funny)
Lovely blog!
Wonderful blog!
Blog blo-o-o-o-o-og blog blo-o-o-o-o-og blog.
Lovely blog! Lovely blog!
Lovely blog! Lovely blog!
Lovely blog!
Blog blog blog blog!
-- The Viking Blog Song
Re:Where's my irony stick? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The Pain ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Pain ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Elsewhere (Score:5, Funny)
The Big Red Switch (Score:4, Funny)
That does happen. I remember working at Purolator Courier's data center in NJ back in -- oh, geez, mid-80s some time. I was a third shift print operator, helped out with the mag tape library too. One night the trouble alarm went off on the fire suppression panel. We'd been having trouble with it all week, and the alarm guy was due in in the morning. One of the newbie operators -- the only one at the console at the time, the others being on a smoke break or asleep in the tape library -- panicked and went over to the annunciator panel. He opened it as I watched him from the console area. I think he thought the halon was about to dump because he reached around the panel and instead of hitting the halon dump abort, he hit the emergency power cutoff.
BLAM! It was as if a firecracker went off as all the breakers tripped and the fans came to a sighing halt. Both on this floor -- the one with the console and the tape drives -- and the floor above, with the CPU and the disk farms. Dead as a doornail.
Now, this was Purolator COURIER. We had AIRPLANES coming in to land at Indy center and as of this moment, no way to tell the crews which gate to go to, where to unload their stuff, or how to sort it.
Not only that, but this was an IBM mainframe shop -- S/390, the Big Iron, with 3380 disk drives. You don't just flip the power switch back on. An emergency power cutoff blows breakers in the power supplies on those DASD strings. The IBM Field Engineer was duly dispatched and arrived with cases of breakers the next morning. But we were still dark when I got off shift the following morning.
The next night a brand new plexiglass cover was mounted over the Big Red Switch.
Re:A great disturbance in the Force... (Score:3, Funny)
hopefully the 'power outage' that took out lj was actually something cool like someone sneaking an emp bomb into the datacenter. and not some dipshit power company employee hooking up something wrong on a transformer outside and melting the lines.
cheers.
Re:./ed !!!! Server Reboot Time? (Score:4, Funny)
if my wife cant post this weekend, im gonna hear about it. and not even be able to post my lj about getting yelled it about lj being down as if i caused the power outage myself.
not really.
well maybe.
Cheers.
It's strange (Score:3, Funny)
what Obi Wan would say if he were here (Score:2, Funny)
Those poor, poor children.
Re:Bringing servers back is hard why? (Score:2, Funny)
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| When the power came back on, we had 143 servers back on-line in ten minutes.
| We had 149 on line in fifteen minutes. We had two servers (leased dedicateds)
| that requires some file system repairs before they would come back on-line, but
| that task was finished 30 minutes after power restoration.
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| What's so hard about that?
What's so hard about that? Well... not everyone who has 150 servers can get 151 of them back online in 30 minutes.
Re:A great disturbance in the Force... (Score:3, Funny)
>It's cute to see such naivety still on the internet. Never played any MMORPGs, huh?
This is different to MMORPGs, MMORPGs are generally a male domain, with men pretending to be women to get favours. On the other hand, blogs involve things women like doing, i.e. fucking going on and on about shit no-one cares about.