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Although you might’ve already read about it on Valleywag, yesterday’s consecutive outages did not, in fact, cause some of your favorite blog, review, and sex ad sites (e.g., LiveJournal, Vox, Craigslist, Yelp) to collapse temporarily. Over at datacenter 365 Main, it seems that maybe someone or some (clearly as of today, former) employee "'came in shitfaced drunk, got angry, went berserk, and fucked up a lot of stuff. There's an outage on 40 or so racks at minimum.'"
Chortle.
Although this sucks for 365 Main (especially with an angry nerd mob at its door to compound its problem yesterday) and, sure, this is a dream many of us have fantasized about when it comes to stressful workplaces, it came at a particularly bad time. After the power went up, to no avail many of us tried to go to the sites that relive work boredom. Here's to hoping that today is a better day.
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Did you bother to read the comments on that link? I guess not, since you repeat the bullshit rumor in the article itself.
Is there any actual proof of this drunk employee story? Even the comments on the Valleywag post cast considerable doubt on it. It doesn't sound believable and it's kinda irresponsible to continue repeating it like it's true.
Dudes, valleywag is practically the National Enquirer for geeks. Unless said drunken employee somehow managed to sabotage a major underground PG&E facility that took out half the city as well as 365 Main, this is completely major b.s. Try datacenterknowledge.com for a more reputable source.
I cast the same shadow of doubt over at MetrobloggingSF and the OP had the audacity to chide me.
Like I said at Metro, it appears that most of the blogosphere does not understand how a colo works.
exhibit a in why blogs won't replace journalism, and why bloggers aren't real journalists. jesus, is the tiniest bit of fact-checking (that doesn't involve zinging the local newspapers) too much for you to handle?
Where's the angry nerd mob now, Brock??
The local newpaper "zinged" had already printed a correction, 4 days earlier. Now that is what we call Journalism!
I love it when the blogosphere bitch slaps the blogosphere.
Any decent co-lo or hosting site is highly secure.
People can't just walk around, can't have liquids with them etc.
Even employees of the place have to have a reason to be in the server hosting areas.
This story is hard to believe
Further to my last posting:
Any decent co-lo site would never advertise or even confirm its location.
Decent places have UPS [un-interuptable power sources] i.e. back-up batteries and generators.
Major hosting sites would not even have a site in SF due to earthquake dangers.
You get what you pay for, and this place sounds like a cheapo tier II or tier III provider. Hope SFist doesn't use brand x...
It's not that 365 doesn't have backup batteries and generators...
it's that those backup plans FAILED. Those generators never started up when they should have. Even better, this is not the first time this has happened to 365.
Most admins/techs I know that have to use 365 hate that place - my fiance included.
365 isn't necessarily cheapo tier II or tier III; they're the main choice in SF. They're geographically close to companies like CNet and Sixapart, and doing realtime backups of constantly-changing data is expensive to do, outragelously so especially if you do it outside of the city where you are located: ie, it makes no financial sense for CNet to colo anywhere outside of SF. Especially since a site like that isn't losing revenue other than advertising when they're down - they're not selling anything.
Anyway, a lot of admins and IT folks had a bad day yesterday. Wonder if the bars were packed last night?