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How To Kill The Internet By Yourself
By admin | July 24, 2007
Anyone notice that the big sites like Craigslist, Six Apart’s TypePad and LiveJournal blogging sites, local listings site Yelp, and blog search engine Technorati are down? Digg is unresponsive, Alexa times out. OMG, who killed the internet? Promise not to laugh when I tell you because you’re not going to believe me. 365 Main, a datacenter on the edge of San Francisco’s Financial District is where most of these sites are hosted.
A source close to the company says:
Someone 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.
Whoever it is, while we like how you roll in theory, in practice, we’d appreciate it if you laid off the servers running websites we actually use. We’re sure 365 Main will deny that such a thing could ever happen. And, conveniently, the neighborhood is having power troubles, too. But here’s a question: When you have several levels of redundant power, what could bring your customers’ servers down other than something like an employee physically ripping the plugs out of the wall?
source Valleywag
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Topics: news, internet, blog |
July 25th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Awesome.
I’d love to wield that sort of power. I’d be dangerous
July 26th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
How is possible that one men do such a damage alone? They need to think about new strategy, that is for sure
July 27th, 2007 at 12:11 am
I’ve seen a lot of funny things happen at ISPs, but drunken rampage is a first for me.