A joke that's too funny to ignore, even if I'm one of the affected (though not suicidal!) users. :)
-rick Infowarrior.org > From: Matt Clauson > To: 303 > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:01:23 -0700 > > "... there was a recent rash of suicides related to the "gothic" > subculture Friday night. The cause of these suicides is still unknown, > but is believed to be related to the recent and total server farm crash of > livejournal.com." > > The InterNAP facility where LJ hosts their gear apparently had a total and > catastrophic loss of power today somwhere on or after 1530MST today. > They're still working on recovery. > > Hope nobody here has boxen in that mess. I'm going to go off myself now. > I can't live without my LJ. *sob* >From LiveJournal's Site: http://www.livejournal.com/ > Our data center (Internap) 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're up on 'dirty' power for now (it works, but it's > unreliable), 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. You are a subscribed member of the infowarrior list. Visit www.infowarrior.org for list information or to unsubscribe. This message may be redistributed freely in its entirety. Any and all copyrights appearing in list messages are maintained by their respective owners.
