Power Outage at ServerBeach Data Center

A ServerBeach data center in Virginia was hit by a power outage early today, causing at least four hours of downtime ^[1] for many customers. The incident marked the third time in the past 16 months that this data center had suffered a complete power loss, following outages in June of this year ^[2]and June 2006 ^[3]. The power outage occurred during system maintenance, according to a update from ServerBeach ^[4].

We have been performing ongoing maintenance in our Virginia data center since the last issue that we had out there this past summer. At approximately 8:00am Central Time we experienced a power outage that affected our entire data center. At 9:15am Central Time the power stabilized and we began bringing servers back online.

ServerBeach ^[5] is the discount dedicated server unit of Peer 1 Networks. The company said it was continuing to investigate the incident, and promised customers a full report within 96 hours “get the full details of what the cause was, analyze the information and create a viable solution that will assist us in avoiding this issue in the future.” While no one plans on downtime, early Saturday morning is as good a time as any – hence the scheduling of the maintenance window for a low-traffic moment for most customers.

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[1] four hours of downtime: http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=225

[2] June of this year : http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Jun/14/murphy_pays_a_visit_to_serverbeach.html

[3] June 2006: http://forums.serverbeach.com/showthread.php?t=6460

[4] update from ServerBeach: http://forums.serverbeach.com/showthread.php?t=7240

[5] ServerBeach: http://www.serverbeach.com/

[6] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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