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Marshal · 08-30-2006, 08:48 PM

A power loss could even bring MySpace down:

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Article origin: La hosting providers slowed by power problems

Continuing power problems at a Los Angeles telecom building have caused more outages for hosting companies, who are working to reassure frustrated customers about the extended downtime.

The Garland Building (1200 W. 7th) lost power for the second time in five days last Friday, causing significant downtime for both Dreamhost and Media Temple. A July 24 outage at the building that knocked MySpace offline was subsequently blamed on malfuctions in a power transfer system and UPS unit. On July 28, the building suffered another loss of power, attributed to an electrical short.

The problems have been most acute for DreamHost, which has been struggling with network troubles in between outages. DreamHost, which hosts about 285,000 hostnames, provided a detailed summary of the problems in a blog post titled Anatomy of a(n Ongoing) Disaster.

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For the rest of the text, check out the article here: La hosting providers slowed by power problems.

I didn't want to be malicious by quoting this article (accidents happen all the time), but if you are into any serious SEO (my main source of income), you should take care of your site's uptime.

Last time I've lost all of my search engine positions, due to couple of hours downtime (sites transfering between servers). I needed almost 3 weeks to get back...

Adult Warden · 08-30-2006, 08:50 PM

Interesting read! Thanks!

bknoob · 08-30-2006, 08:59 PM

Dreamhost's blog is very very very interesting to read. They have many good articles and some articles are very funny because they make fun of themselves as a company.

http://blog.dreamhost.com/

squishypimp · 08-30-2006, 09:15 PM

wow very interesting

Marshal · 08-30-2006, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by bknoob

Dreamhost's blog is very very very interesting to read. They have many good articles and some articles are very funny because they make fun of themselves as a company.

http://blog.dreamhost.com/

do you mean they are ironic or they are making mockery out of themselves? i've never read their blog, that's why i'm asking...

WiredGuy · 08-30-2006, 09:18 PM

It's why I pay so much for a single extremely reliable server that I cannot afford to ever go down. Mirrored in the UK, Raid, multiple HD's, hot swapable everything, its one hell of a server that should never ever go down.
WG

bknoob · 08-30-2006, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by nettrust

do you mean they are ironic or they are making mockery out of themselves? i've never read their blog, that's why i'm asking...

yeap... sometimes they even admit of overselling and misleading customers. Not sure if it's a good idea to admit to such things in public.

Marshal · 08-30-2006, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by WiredGuy

It's why I pay so much for a single extremely reliable server that I cannot afford to ever go down. Mirrored in the UK, Raid, multiple HD's, hot swapable everything, its one hell of a server that should never ever go down.
WG

you are only doing backups or servers could swap in case one goes down?

WiredGuy · 08-30-2006, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by nettrust

you are only doing backups or servers could swap in case one goes down?

Mirrored copy of everything in their UK data center in case the entire server or infrastracture in Texas goes down.
WG

Marshal · 08-30-2006, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by WiredGuy

Mirrored copy of everything in their UK data center in case the entire server or infrastracture in Texas goes down.
WG

that's what i've ever wanted to have!

vod · 08-30-2006, 09:39 PM

I believe that it will be better 100% uptime in all case's

SplitNinja · 08-30-2006, 10:05 PM

Nice setup WiredGuy, is it the same hosting company ? is it IBM ? they have datacenters everywhere, mostly for govs and they dont usually take regular clients.

Marshal · 08-30-2006, 11:44 PM

i'd like to see the price list!

WiredGuy · 08-31-2006, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by SplitNinja

Nice setup WiredGuy, is it the same hosting company ? is it IBM ? they have datacenters everywhere, mostly for govs and they dont usually take regular clients.

It's Rackspace, not cheap at all, but they're really a mission critical host. $3.50/gig, yikes

WG

Marshal · 08-31-2006, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by WiredGuy

It's Rackspace, not cheap at all, but they're really a mission critical host. $3.50/gig, yikes

WG

wow! that's $3.5k for 1000GB!

WiredGuy · 08-31-2006, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by nettrust

wow! that's $3.5k for 1000GB!

Its worth it when you absolutely can't afford downtime...
WG

dcortez · 08-31-2006, 10:10 AM

This issue extends to hosting companies who don't realize that even 2-5 minute outages throughout the day (when they reboot servers/networks) can kill a site's SE ranks.

In addition to power backup, make sure your host offers reliable *web service* uptime - many that claim 99% uptime do not mean that your web pages will be accessible 99% of the time.

Marshal · 09-01-2006, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by dcortez

This issue extends to hosting companies who don't realize that even 2-5 minute outages throughout the day (when they reboot servers/networks) can kill a site's SE ranks.

In addition to power backup, make sure your host offers reliable *web service* uptime - many that claim 99% uptime do not mean that your web pages will be accessible 99% of the time.

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Marshal · 09-03-2006, 12:14 PM

i'm also interested in one thing: in case of power outage, there's no backup power. how's that possible?!

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