It's good to see that downtime on Wikipedia is sufficiently rare nowadays that it's a newsworthy event when it does happen:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/7514826/Wikipedia- goes-down.html
Mike
On 24 Mar 2010, at 19:44, George Herbert wrote:
It's all over the tech blog and wider net - but to repeat it here, there was a cooling failure at the datacenter the European servers are in, there was a DNS glitch in the recovery procedures for a datacenter outage for routing the traffic back to Florida, and the DNS outage has resolved itself for nearly everyone by now.
The secure server is still down, but nearly everything else should be more or less all up, running out of Florida.
See for example:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/global-outage-cooling-failure- and-dns/#comments
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@googlemail.com wrote:
Anyone know what happened to wikipedia this afternoon?
"Firefox can't find the server at en.wikipedia.org"
WereSpielChequers
-- -george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com
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