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When the lights go out …

This morning in Virginia, USA, one of the data-centers we use was caught by a total power blackout, and was off-line for approximately 94 minutes.
Fortunately, our server there rebooted cleanly when power was restored and no customers experienced any loss of service.
Now, if you think that I’m going to complain about how this should never [...]

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BBC News knocked off-line

The BBC News web-site has been suffering outages today while its hosting location fluctuated between BBC Internet Services and the Akamai web application acceleration and performance management service.
For many users this afternoon, the front page of the BBC News site has been slow to respond, often displaying error messages such as “No suitable nodes are [...]

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