Twitter Touts Joyent Amid More Outages

Here’s a scenario: You’re a fast-growing Web 2.0 service under fire for your shaky uptime. You need to reassure your devoted but increasingly ^[1] grumpy ^[2] users that you can stay online during the Super Bowl. So you post a notice touting the merits of your “trusty infrastructure provider” – which just suffered a 10-day outage ^[3] on one of the services it hosts.

It doesn’t make sense to me either. (UPDATE: Apparently it didn’t to Twitter once they thought about it. See our update ^[4].)But the folks at Twitter seem to believe that the time was right for a post titled Happy Happy Joyent ^[5], which notes that Twitter tends to be mobbed during large shared events:

It makes us glad that our trusty infrastructure provider Joyent has us covered with extra capacity

About Rich Miller ^[6]

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.

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URLs in this post:

[1] increasingly: http://mashable.com/2008/01/30/twitter-down-for-the-debates-twitter-forces-my-hand/

[2] grumpy: http://www.lastpodcast.net/2008/01/30/another-day-another-twitter-outage/

[3] 10-day outage: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Jan/16/joyent_outage_tied_to_software_updates.html

[4] See our update: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Jan/31/hasty_divorce_for_twitter_joyent.html

[5] Happy Happy Joyent: http://blog.twitter.com/2008/01/happy-happy-joyent.html

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

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