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Due to a power outage that hit a datacenter based in Phoenix, according to FJ Linden, all of Second Life went offline from 9pm to 4am yesterday. (What's the deal with Arizona lately?) As is often the case, Tyche Shepherd has the best infographic on the concurrency outage. And you know what goes great with infographics? You guessed it:
Infographic by Tyche, Lolcatting by Hamlet. Tyche hat tip: Jura Shepherd.
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It also led to T Linden's voice crashing during a meeting where he kept insisting (despite pleas from the audience) that he would use Voice rather than Text. So, you know, it wasn't ALL bad.
FJ's post was spot-on. He didn't praise us for being passionate, he told us (if you read between the lines) that he threatened the datacenter with the wrath of those same passionate users if this happens again.
Seriously, short of truly heroic measures, not much LL could have done to prevent this that I can see.
Posted by: Talvin Muircastle | Friday, April 30, 2010 at 08:36 AM
The question is why was a power outage allowed to even happen. Seriously what backwater data centers are they renting?
Plus side, Second Life has been more "Stable" even if the performance seams to have degraded somewhat. Hoping they can do for performance what they did for stability.
Posted by: Not You | Friday, April 30, 2010 at 08:58 AM
Umm "not you"...
It's not a hospital, it's a virtual world. I don't honestly demand multiple points of redundant power. I cannot recall this occurring all that often (or before) so I'm not sure Lidnen needs battering (on this point).
I think we all got along fine with our PSPs, Xbox 360s, and 300+ channels for a bit.
Stable? Define stable honestly. You're hot and you're cold. You're yes and you're no. Drive a block in your car on the grid. Dare ya.
Posted by: Adric Antfarm | Friday, April 30, 2010 at 04:15 PM
Was anyone able to find out any information about this 5+ hour power outage in Pheonix, Arizona on April 29-30? I couldn't find any mention of a power failure durint that time.
Posted by: Rose Mackie | Sunday, May 02, 2010 at 07:52 AM
The power outage looks legit. Expedia has a datacenter in Chandler as well and they went offline at the same time.
http://www.pamil-visions.net/expedias-power-outage/214683/
Posted by: TJ | Sunday, May 02, 2010 at 11:23 AM