Turns out (as we all expected) the drunk employee theory was bunk.  The reason for the outage to the colo facility was that their emergency power systems did not work. 365Main has a HiTec flywheel UPS design, meaning they don’t use batteries.  These big flywheels are able to sustain power to the facility for 11 seconds until the generators spool up.. obviously this didn’t quite work out.  Perhaps there’s something to those good ol’ reliable battery backup systems that facilities like Equinix and ourselves use….

-S

It appears that a major data center in San Francisco which hosts some of the worlds most popular websites (Craigslist, LiveJournal, Technorati) suffered a major power systems failure when utility power was lost to the Center.  There have been two initial reports first (the much more logical) report is that during a PE&G issue that cut power to the facility that backup systems did not engage properly *or* were not able to support the load.  The other report (which is probably false) is that a employee got drunk and started on a rampage in Colo4 in the center.  Persons that were in the Center during the outage report it as a utility failure and that generators did start but power was still lost.

My new company SPEAKservers LLC which is co-owned by Triphius and myself is starting to roll along nicely now.  We’ve started to get regular inquiries and purchases :)  If you are a avid online gamer I am sure you have heard of TeamSpeak, a online VoIP solution for games among other things.  SPEAKservers sells these servers to the upper crust of online users who require mission critical uptime and connectivity.

Check out SPEAKservers  🙂

-Scott

We’ve made a bunch of progress at the Login datacenter, now that we’ve been permitted by the city of Tucson, you can check out our progress @ http://gallery.login.com

The folks over at Mozilla have finally gotten Thunderbird to version 2.0, now my post is a bit behind because it was released last week but, meh oh well.

I’ve already compiled RPMS for FC6 available at fedorajunkies.com

Enjoy and happy e-mail readying 🙂