Category: downtime
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Amazon AWS Outage
Looks like quite a few (if not all) of the Amazon AWS services are down or performance is significantly degraded this morning. This is the first significant outage since we started using S3 to serve images for WordPress.com. Currently we serve about 1500 image requests per second across WordPress.com. About 80-100 per second are served…
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Redundancy and power outages
Scott Beale reports that many Web 2.0 websites were affected by today’s power outage at 365 Main in San Francisco. While unfortunate, as a systems guy I have to assume things like this are going to happen. They shouldn’t happen, but they can and they will. At the data center level, there should be multiple…
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