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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[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

I know Six Apart is not perfect, but I do also know that LJ has suffered similar fates with backup power not functioning like it should even before it went to six apart. However, that said, San Francisco did get hit with a major power outage that took out some 30K customers, including a huge data center that not only affected LJ and six apart, but Craigs List and a couple of other websites too.

So I'm not inclined to totally blame Six Apart even though they did leave it to bring LJ up last. Now, don't know if that was intentional or not but still, by 8 something last night, LJ came back up.

Anyway, I know many of us had to suffer LJ withdrawal for a few hours after we came home from work. :-)