When the lights go out …
Published October 20, 2007 by Me
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 happen, you’re wrong. I would actually like to praise the data-center staff for their rapid reaction to this incident – Serverbeach, the proprietors of the data-center, immediately flagged this up as a serious incident with their holding company, PEER1, and additional technicians from two other data-centers were dispatched by air to Virginia to assist in any server recoveries that were necessary. I can ask no more of them than that, and the fact that they all reacted so swiftly is a credit to them. Big thumbs up from me! 
Filed under data-center, outage, peer1, serverbeach
