Lightning strike zaps EC2 Ireland
Amazon has told its EC2 customers in Europe some of them could face outages of as long as 24 to 48 hours as the cloud provider struggles to recover from a lightning strike that disrupted power supplies to its Dublin, Ireland data center. It took 3 hours to recover the first of the affected instances [...]
People Using Amazon Cloud: Get Some Cheap Insurance At Least
I’m reading through Twitter streams, Amazon Forums, and other news sources trying to get a sense of how users are responding and what their problems are. It’s pretty appalling out there. B2B companies admitting they have no recent backups and just have to wait for it to come back online. A company that claims patient’s [...]
WordPress and the Dark Side of Multitenancy
Quite a bit of hubbub over WordPress’s recent outage. A number of high profile blogs including Techcrunch, GigaOm, CNN, and your very own SmoothSpan use WordPress. Matt Mullenweg told Read/WriteWeb: “The cause of the outage was a very unfortunate code change that overwrote some key options in the options table for a number of blogs. We [...]
