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[chipotle]

...and today is, of course, the first day in the hosting service's history where they've apparently had some kind of major failure at the data center. Textdrive has their servers at The Planet, a hosting center in Dallas. The Planet has a 100% uptime SLA -- not 99%, not 99.999%, but actually 100% in the SLA -- and it appears they've been down for at least three hours now.

This makes me very, very, VERY unhappy right now. I know I'm not alone in being stressed out, given that there's probably thousands of sites of down thanks to this. But somehow that doesn't really make me feel better.

I'm glad I didn't announce it anywhere else.

I'm really hoping that whatever's wrong doesn't involve data loss, because if it does, I could be really, really screwed. I hadn't had time to export the database yet. (Textdrive does automatic backups, but I don't know how real-time they are.)

I'm going to go make a big pot of coffee and pour it over my head.

Comments

[aureth.livejournal.com]

:(

I went to go look this morning when I got into work, and got nothing. Sucks that of all the times to go down, it has to be /now/...

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Blah

[chastmastr.livejournal.com]

It seems to be working now... Claw and Quill, I mean.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

It has been my experience that new products which have tons of bugs before becoming public become big successes. And likewise, products which never have a problem until released to the public become phenomenal flops.

Crashing a six-sigma reliability site definately means your website is going to be a smash hit. :)

Pour it over your head?

[typographer.livejournal.com]

I've never gotten good caffeine absorbtion that way, myself. ;)

Sorry about the problems. Having something nowhere near as frustrating, but similar, myself over where our mailing lists are hosted. :P

[mordrul.livejournal.com]

If it helps you feel any better, none of the times I've gone to look at it (early this morning, then again just now at 2:40 pm) has it been down. Well, the Welcome page refused to load this morning, but I assumed maybe there was just a minor bug somewhere, and the rest of the site displayed just fine. Whatever problems The Planet had seem to be over as far as I can tell.

[moonstalker.livejournal.com]

*lifts one massive paw an looks under it* Oops. I should be more careful about my walks downtown.