LJ returns, not that it should have gone anywhere in the first place...

[bjarvis]

LJ isn't such a huge portion of my life that I was severely inconvenienced by last night's outage. God knows I had enough other things to work on.

Still, how is it that a single power outage can take down the entire system? Do they not have backup power, servers distributed between more than one data center to provide redundancy, etc?

Six Apart, you're looking like a bunch of high school amateurs. Time to step up to the first tier of professionalism.

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[manley1.livejournal.com]

Heh, we couldn't throw stones when I worked at Harvard. The building in which I was sitting for the administration for the first few years didn't even have a generator and the UPS only lasted 10 minutes. Then, when I worked for FAS, a blown UPS knocked us completely off the wire for many hours.

Hell, where I work now there is only a small series of mini UPS's powering our local machine room. Our real machines are in remote machine rooms, however, with redundant power and the like.

I guess the point I'm trying to make, if there is one, is that their practices are not uncommon, it's sad to say. I feel bad for them.