Outage for many major web sites
November 14, 2007On Monday 11/14/07, I noticed some sites I was trying to access were down – wordpress.com and gigaom.com. I was trying to post a blog entry and download an episode of the GigaOM show (highly recommended) to my iPod Nano before packing for my trip and was getting pretty frustrated. Apparently a traffic accident affected a power transformer and caused AC problems at the Rackspace data center in Dallas. I read this also affected Wesabe and the 37signals apps – all major name players in the web game.
37signals does a great job openly communicating the details of the outage here. Just goes to show that all the thinking, planning, and redundancies can still be unraveled by an accident and a specific chain of negative events.
This stuff is hard.
