Well, That was fun.

[DavidMi]

Time is still off. Saying 11pm now.

[dpeters11]

Things are definitely goofy. I just posted in this thread
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?p=2833073&posted=1#post2833073

My post I just made is post 7. The time is right but should be post 12, the other posts have wrong times, making them "future" posts.

Will make threads a bit harder to follow for a while.

Didn't see David's post before making mine. But it won't happen for about 2 hours anyway :)

[fluffybear]

What did people do when the site went out? Watch TV? :D

Panic!

[Alan Gordon]

For a while there, I assumed that pictures leaked of DirecTV's new HD-GUI and it "broke" the internet... :grin:

~Alan

[bobnielsen]

Time fixed for now. But as you can see, because of the mess up, it now put this post first as the other posts where made in the future. ;)

Your post is still in the future here.

[SayWhat?]

~:: scratches head ::~

[SayWhat?]

My post at 08-11-11, 03:00 AM started this thread, but the time maintenance tossed everything into the blender.

[DavidMi]

Looks like it messed up the number of members online too.

[cypherx]

For a while there, I assumed that pictures leaked of DirecTV's new HD-GUI and it "broke" the internet... :grin:

~Alan

Yeah other satellite TV and A/V sites also went out at the same time. What a coincidence lol.

[David Bott]

Time fixed for now. But as you can see, because of the mess up, it now put this post first as the other posts where made in the future. ;)

[Scott Kocourek]

Spent the day with my family at Six Flags, no moderating necessary. :)

[Scott Kocourek]

Time still 2 hours off.

[Doug Brott]

Posting this @ 8:25pm PT ... (test)

[Doug Brott]

Yup .. Shows up right for me, other than there are 3 posts posted after mine even though they were posted earlier .. :lol:

[Stuart Sweet]

Yeah other satellite TV and A/V sites also went out at the same time. What a coincidence lol.

Not a terrible coincidence when a lot of sites int the same data center went down.

[Drucifer]

What did people do when the site went out? Watch TV? :DThe site went down?

What happen? A time-warp bubble?

[SayWhat?]

Not. :rolleyes::D

Looks like the system clock is still a bit off. Not 3:00 AM as far as I can tell.

[James Long]

What did people do when the site went out? Watch TV? :D

[MikeW]

Became productive at work?

[pfp]

What did people do when the site went out? Watch TV? :D

Worse - work!

[SayWhat?]

Not a terrible coincidence when a lot of sites int the same data center went down.


That one I don't get. How is that possible? Isn't that part of the point of using a DC? Redundant power and servers?

[David Bott]

For those interested...Here the thread chat on the outage...

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1072692

[SayWhat?]

I don't get anything there, just the board headers, no thread pages or posts. Is it restricted?

[davring]

I don't get anything there, just the board headers, no thread pages or posts. Is it restricted?

Didn't appear to be restricted. A hole lot of people complaining about lack of redundancy.

[James Long]

There are a lot of complaints about the blame the customer aspect of this: "If you would've paid for more redundancy your site would not be down." (According to the linked thread, I have no personal knowledge.)

Personally, I don't know why a higher level of redundancy isn't standard. I can understand if it was the difference between choosing a data center with one level of redundancy over a different data center with a different level of redundancy. But to have different servers in the same center set up to a different level of redundancy seems complicated.

The data center where I work doesn't give people the option. Every machine gets the highest level of redundancy possible. (It is a private data center that does not offer services to the public.)

The failure seems to be the one of those things that will "never happen". Saying that in IT is a good way of guaranteeing that will happen. :)

[Carl Spock]

A hole lot of people complaining about lack of redundancy.
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[Stuart Sweet]

I think that when something like this happens, there's plenty of blame to go around. I will say that for the people who say this will cost them $45-55k for the period they were down, they must be a fairly large enterprise and should have business interruption insurance, as well they should have considered a redundant data center for that amount of volume. That doesn't absolve the data center of blame, they get their fair share too. But you know, I use a hosting service (for my personal stuff) that has had 99% uptime for the last two years. If I actually made money off the thing, I'd probably pay for someone with 99.9999% uptime. I don't, so I don't.

[David Ortiz]

For those interested...Here the thread chat on the outage...

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1072692

I think that when something like this happens, there's plenty of blame to go around. I will say that for the people who say this will cost them $45-55k for the period they were down, they must be a fairly large enterprise and should have business interruption insurance, as well they should have considered a redundant data center for that amount of volume. That doesn't absolve the data center of blame, they get their fair share too. But you know, I use a hosting service (for my personal stuff) that has had 99% uptime for the last two years. If I actually made money off the thing, I'd probably pay for someone with 99.9999% uptime. I don't, so I don't.

I was following the thread about the outage yesterday and I swear some of the posts read just like the ones in the HD Anticipation thread. ;)

[carlsbad_bolt_fan]

There are a lot of complaints about the blame the customer aspect of this: "If you would've paid for more redundancy your site would not be down." (According to the linked thread, I have no personal knowledge.)

Personally, I don't know why a higher level of redundancy isn't standard. I can understand if it was the difference between choosing a data center with one level of redundancy over a different data center with a different level of redundancy. But to have different servers in the same center set up to a different level of redundancy seems complicated.

The data center where I work doesn't give people the option. Every machine gets the highest level of redundancy possible. (It is a private data center that does not offer services to the public.)

The failure seems to be the one of those things that will "never happen". Saying that in IT is a good way of guaranteeing that will happen. :)

In my 20+ years of working in the MIS/IT field, I have learned this mantra:

Never say 'never'. For if you do, your life suddenly becomes complicated for a minimum of 4 hours. :D

[SayWhat?]

I'm not sure which datacenter this was. All I was getting from the WhoIs lookups was Carrolton, TX. In the past, I've used both The Planet and Savvis with no down time at all to speak of. I see some articles on the web about outages at The Planet, but for whatever reason, they didn't affect my sites. I think I've been on Savvis for 6 or 7 years without a noticeable outage.

[Kevin F]

This happened to me last night too. It was a little past midnight and for some of the threads, some of the last posts were at 4:21 AM. This was on my iPhone.

Kevin

[Nick]

CMEs raining down upon us.

I was in my garden hoeing potatoes when a CME hit -- my once lilly-white skin darkened three shades. ▒ ▓ █

[dmurphy]

CMEs raining down upon us.

I was in my garden hoeing potatoes when a CME hit -- my once lilly-white skin darkened three shades. ▒ ▓ █

I'll take a CME over an RGE any day....

And this co-lo outage, if it happened where I work... would be an RGE.

[James Long]

I'll take a CME over an RGE any day....

And this co-lo outage, if it happened where I work... would be an RGE.
CME = Corrective Maintenance Exercise
RGE = Resume Generating Event

???

[SayWhat?]

Hmmm, I thought CME was Coronal Mass Ejection.

[James Long]

Hmmm, I thought CME was Coronal Mass Ejection.That would make sense ... although the current CME event had nothing to do with the outage. :confused: