Unplanned outage

[patracy]

Our ISP had an issue tonight. I knew about it about 20mins after it happened. But while it was down I took my time bringing it back up. I wanted to run a database check, and I pulled a backup of the database as well. In light of yet another unexplained outage (power), I'm going to retain a backup copy of the database on my local network.

 

[papabear]

Yup...that's exactly what I would do...if I knew what ya said!!

 

[ThunderCracker]

Lol papabear

 

[swiss]

We need to go down more often, we are at 164 members versus 112 guests as of 10:04 Members rule

 

[patracy]

Yup...that's exactly what I would do...if I knew what ya said!!

Translation:

Drew isn't happy.

 

[swbradley1]

Power outages happen all the time. Power outages inside an ISP's hosted data center do not. I would be very not happy.

 

[natem]

Translation: Someone let the smoke out of the magic box.

 

[Ferroequinologist]

Uh, UPS? And I don't mean buster brown...

Thanks for getting it back up and all you do Drew!

 

[swbradley1]

For our "little" data center we have UPS', motor-generator and two big diesel generators sitting on pads outside. The diesels get tested once a month and we frequently (relative term) test when power gets re-wired. Even with all that we have still had power outages. If it is built by a human and used by humans you can't human proof it.

 

[Ferroequinologist]

oh, for sure, you can't human proof anything.

 

[rchalmers3]

That was a rough time for me....... but no worries, I'm not addicted and can stop any time I want.

Rick

 

[papabear]

That was a rough time for me....... but no worries, I'm not addicted and can stop any time I want.
Rick

Sure ya can!

 

[mikew]

No 99.999% uptime gold star for you!

Oh wait, these are PCs not mainframes.... no 90% uptime gold star for you!

Backups, two copies in two different geographical locations!

My bank customers frown upon downtime and terminate your contract over lost data!

 

[juanprado]

I hope you are getting some coin back for poor performance from the ISP in monthly credits. We use doubleknot and Kintera and never recall an outage.

Thanks for your dedication in keeping the wheels running!