Website Outage on July 14th
Canadaka @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:11 pm
I apologize for the site being down almost all day today, but it was out of my hands.
There was a fire in downtown Vancouver that knocked out power in a portion of downtown including the harbour centre, where the CKA servers are located in the Peer1 data centre.
The diesel generaters died from overheating after 20min, and the backup UPS failed after another 15min. The data centre people worked all day to fix the problem, but it took them almost all day.
It's pretty crazy that this happened, this is the biggest data-centre in vancouver, CKA is small fish compared to some of the huge sites and corporate clients hosted in the building. I'm sure potentially millions were lost.
Because of this, my appointment to install the new server wsa delayed, it might happen tommorow or the next day.
Brenda @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:14 pm
I heard it on the news...
How long do you think you need?
TattoodGirl @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:14 pm
OH SHIT that is why I couldnt log into my work puter from home...ya i do that 
What burned?
Brenda @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:15 pm
BC Hydro cables underneath the streets...
SprCForr @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:16 pm
No one hurt though?
Canadaka @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:21 pm
Here is a video newscast of the fire
http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/bc/ondemand ... S_TANG.wmv
Vancouver blackout crashes websites worldwide
http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/vanco ... -worldwide
TattoodGirl @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:27 pm
Thanks for the links Trev and Wil....thats crazy!!!
Looks like I still cant log into my workstation...guess I just have to sit it out 
Regina @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:30 pm
The site was down??
Sorry...on the road.
Public_Domain @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:33 pm
Oh damn!
Good luck man.
Shit, glad everyone is okay.
ridenrain @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:34 pm
Happy I don't work or live downtown. Another day and it would be like dawn of the dead except with vegans. 
Our power in richmond went out in sympathy around 2pm also.
hwacker @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:36 pm
Well with your HTC touch you should have teathered to the server. You do have unlimited data rate right ?
saturn_656 @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:46 pm
This fire really screwed up alot of different systems, CKA was screwed, lots of our computer applications at work were buggered, blackberrys were pooched... and it goes on.
tritium @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:08 pm
http://www.in2net.com located in Burnaby Trev.
DrCaleb @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:19 pm
Canadaka Canadaka:
The diesel generaters died from overheating after 20min, and the backup UPS failed after another 15min. The data centre people worked all day to fix the problem, but it took them almost all day.
Lesson to take away - if you have a disaster plan in place - TEST IT!
Man, someone dug up another fiber bundle near Edmonton today. I had no email, no Sametime - and CKA was down. I was so bored I was playing with a shiny thing on a bit of string.
Regina @ Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:26 pm
Productivity across Canada may have went up today. 