I googled their image search with the term 'test' and got this:
Posted on 07/24/2007 3:24:54 PM PDT by HAL9000
6 back-to-back power outages hit the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco Tuesday afternoon causing major havoc with popular web services. 365 Main is down, along with craigslist, Netflix, Technorati, Yelp, AdBrite and SixApart.Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is currently working on the issue. It is now estimated that over PG&E 51,000 customers are with out power.
So the big question, where is the backup power at the data centers used by these services?
UPDATE 1: Digg is still up
UPDATE 2: Some services, like Technorati are starting to come back online.
Fire sale?
Mother Sheehan must have turned on all the klieg lights at once....
That’s right, can’t reach cragslist casual encounters. Bummer!
Easy there
Get hold of John McClane first.
PG&E officials said most customers appeared to be back online by 3 p.m.
Oh the humanity!
Craigslist and many other sites are having issues at the colo facility.
Please sit tight, and try again later.
We are aware of the situation, and the happy craigslist elves are scurrying to make it better, even now.
From craigslist...
What’s the verdict of TV preachers on the cause of this calamity in Sin City?
Major power outage in San Fran. No big deal. At least we wont have to worry about a spike in birth rates nine months from now.
The people in the gay bath houses are plunging into darkeness...ewwwwwwww.
That's right, you won't be seeing pregnant homos in March 2008!
Which carrier hotel / co-location facility got hit?
Has anyone noticed that google image search does not show images?
That would explain why Livejoural is down!
I'm seeing them...
Are those sites gay websites?
I googled their image search with the term 'test' and got this:
I am reminded of what I was fighting for in Iraq!
Prelude to the QUAKE.
Sporadic Outages Hit Downtown San Francisco
51,000 Homes, Businesses Affected
AP
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AN FRANCISCO, Jul. 24, 2007 - Sporadic power failures hit the city Tuesday, affecting a broad swath of downtown, including the arena where the San Francisco Giants play.
About 51,000 homes and businesses were without electricity at the height of the outage, which started at about 2 p.m., said Pacific Gas & Electric spokeswoman Darlene Chiu.
Many were successfully rerouted to backup power circuits, but about 30,000 customers remained in the dark an hour later as PG&E crews worked to identify the outage's cause, Chiu said.
"Our priority now is to restore service back to our customers as fast as we can," she said.
AT&T Park, home of the Giants, was also affected hours before a scheduled night game.
Six Apart Inc. said its sites began failing shortly before 2 p.m., and the company sent an e-mail to customers blaming the city's "power issues." The San Francisco-based blog hosting service reported that power had resumed shortly afterward, but employees were checking data and computers.
Several other Internet sites with offices in San Francisco had problems Tuesday afternoon, including Technorati, Yelp, Red Envelope and CNet. It was unclear whether the problems were related to the outage.
San Francisco-based classified site Craigslist.org was down Tuesday afternoon, but founder Craig Newmark said he didn't know why.
Bay Area Rapid Transit trains were operating normally, though one downtown station was running on backup batteries, a BART spokesman said. The San Francisco Police Department said it had not received additional calls related to the problem.
Gregg Fishman, a spokesman for California's Independent System Operator, which manages the state's power grid, said there had been no reports of widespread failures outside San Francisco.
"There's nothing that we know of on our system that would affect San Francisco," Fishman said.
Yup. Livejournal is SixApart’s baby.
Funny- a power outage taught me that craigslist, technorati, Facebook, and Livejournal are all cousins.
Is this connected to the naked protesters at Hillary Clinton’s San Fran office a couple threads back ?
Yes, but some of us still haven't lost hope.
The bay area is having all sorts of fun, what with the 28 day old garbage haulers strike & no end in sight. [Oakland]
Just spend $25K on a UPS system. They are used for ATE that can not stop. You need 220 triple phase hard wired. Big enclosure of DC batteries that the inverter turns on when the AC stops. And it’s noisy for a small business.
I’m going to try that, thanks.
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