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Lengthy Outage at Media Temple
Los Angeles hosting provider Media Temple continues to have trouble with its grid hosting service, now called Grid-Service. Many sites hosted on Media Temple’s grid were offline for 10 hours Friday, as a storage upgrade failed and the initial attempt to roll back to a stable configuration was unsuccessful. In an update on its company blog, Media Temple said that technicians from storage vendor BlueArc struggled to upgrade the provider’s disk storage system, and it took several hours to sort out the issues. Affected sites included All Things Pakistan, LifeChurch.tv and Heroes Revealed, among others.
Media Temple’s grid server offering debuted last year to a rave review on TechCrunch, but experienced significant downtime in its early days, and more performance issues in early October of this year. The storage upgrade was part of a planned maintenance period for replacing electrical equipment at Media Temple’s EL-DC3 data center.
About Rich Miller
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
Is this a real article? I’m only asking, because exactly a year ago, there was a very similar outage, and it almost seems like this was a repost.
Yes, this is a new article and a new outage. Here’s the support thread at MT detailing the events Friday:
Interesting. It’s almost as if it’s the yearly bluearc meltdown.
RESOURCE LINKS:
Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
December 1st, 2007