It's good to see that downtime on Wikipedia is sufficiently rare nowadays that it's a newsworthy event when it does happen:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/7514826/Wikipedia- goes-down.html Mike On 24 Mar 2010, at 19:44, George Herbert wrote: > It's all over the tech blog and wider net - but to repeat it here, > there was a cooling failure at the datacenter the European servers are > in, there was a DNS glitch in the recovery procedures for a datacenter > outage for routing the traffic back to Florida, and the DNS outage has > resolved itself for nearly everyone by now. > > The secure server is still down, but nearly everything else should be > more or less all up, running out of Florida. > > See for example: > > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/global-outage-cooling-failure- > and-dns/#comments > > http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM, WereSpielChequers > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Anyone know what happened to wikipedia this afternoon? >> >> "Firefox can't find the server at en.wikipedia.org" >> >> WereSpielChequers > > > > > -- > -george william herbert > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
