Outages yesterday

[Gand]

We had a couple of outages recently:

2006-11-15: 10:35 - 12:46 PST
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Complete power failure in the CARI C2 datacenter (the datacenter where this server is hosted. They had to stagger powering all the equipment back up to prevent spikes. This resulted in over 2 hours of downtime

2006-11-16: 04:31 - 07:36 PST
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After I crawled out of bed to see why my alerting was going off, I found out that the switch that feeds this server had died. This resulted in over 3 hours of downtime.

Needless to say, I am pretty pissed off. I'm going to squeeze a free month out of them for having 5.5 hours of downtime in a 24-hour window. In addition I am working to purchase my own 1U server and put it in a more redundant facility in downtown LA. This will probably happen at the end of the year assuming I can get good rates negotiated.

Anyway, let me know if you have questions. :bleh:

[Neko Koneko]

Is downtown LA really such a good and safe place for a server? I mean, earthquakes :ph34r:

[Gand]

Yeah, it's safe. It's a huge datacenter. Also I keep offsite backups. If there's a big enough earthquake to take down that building then I have bigger problems to worry about :eek:

[Eternal]

bed? lol gand sleeps XD

Thank you for maintaining ichigos and doing such a good job~ :)

[Mazeppa]

Yea, when you get to the point, good luck getting Ichigo's a new/er server at LA there.

And as said before - You admins are all still doing a great job!

[Maestrosetti]

Well, Gand specifically if he's been paying for all this. I'm grateful he's put so much money just into the forums. :) (With help from generous donors).

[random_tangent]

THAT was what i meant to do! DONATE... oh well, it'll have to wait a while again. All my nice money went bye-bye on passports!