Six Apart vs. LJ Downtime: not even!

[azurelunatic]

For the record, it was a power failure at LiveJournal's server co-location facility, Internap that caused the LJ downtime. Complete power failure. Backup power went out. This has happened before (but I'm not sure when).

LJ's machines were with Internap before the Six Apart buyout. They've stayed there. LJ's buying Uninterruptable Power Supplies of their own so that this won't happen again, because Internap's power cannot be trusted fully.

This would have happened regardless of the buyout. The computers have been there at that same company for years. Sheesh, guys.

Comments

[melcocha.livejournal.com]

I was giggling like a fool at today's Something Positive, thinking that no one could possibly have been that freaked out over LJ's downtime. Then I see your post and see I was wrong. I'm so sorry you had to witness whatever it was that made it necessary for you to point out the obvious.

[azurelunatic]

I was entirely that annoyed, though not actually freaked. Some (clinically) paranoid factions of my friends list decided to think it was a 6 Apart Conspiracy, or something to that effect. That would have made sense if the computers had been moved to the 6A headquarters...

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

I was sure I'd see posts like that from the conspiracy theorists.

The comic in question:

[azurelunatic]

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01152005.shtml