The internet is only as good...
...as the power stations behind it. Yesterday Typepad, which hosts this blog, Liam and Sue's Black Belt Dojo blog and a couple of my own personal blogs, suffered a major power outage at it's server centre due to a small earthquake. The service was down for about six hours - quite a major issue in anyone's book - and affected quite a large chunk of San Franciso and other sites including Technorati.
Typepad managed to get out a message to users via e-mail, and kept people updated once power had come back on and they were rebooting the system. No great harm done to us, but I suspect for bigger sites it was a pretty massive problem.
As he regularly does, Stowe Boyd phrases the concern perfectly: "We are only a few tremors -- or a tsunami or hurricane -- away from dropping back into a pre-wired reality."
Is it really a mini earthquake? There are a lot of contradicting reasons, some completely wild and some more credible, but I was under the impression that officially, they still weren't sure about the real cause?
Posted by: Vincent Sorel | July 26, 2007 at 03:11 PM