Websites and Muni and POWER - Oh my!
So it looks like downtown San Francisco had a bit of a negative jolt this morning - losing juice to all the major important stuff downtown. Interesting to learn that half of the critical buildings downtown are all wired on the same circuit.
Well, shit happens.
But wait! It gets better. 365 Main, the indestructible, went down, too. Failover to generators was not flawless and Craigslist, Yelp and other sites crashed. Still down now, 3 hours later. Aren’t we in the age of failover redundancy in Silicon Valley?
I’d personally buy some stock in APC tomorrow, when every CEO in the Valley yells at (or praises) their IT folks, but that’s just me.
Anyone get to go home early?
Mind you all, I’m still happy we live in a country where 2 hours without power is considered a big deal. (It’s really not)