Comments on: UPS Failure Triggered Friendster Outage

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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:28:58 +0000

[...] UPS Failure Triggered Friendster OutageA “catastrophic” UPS failure caused a power outage Thursday at a Santa Clara data center operated by Quality Technology Services, triggering lengthy problems for the social network Friendster. Read more at our web site. [...]

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» On UPS and Generators — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:52:03 +0000

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By: Rich Miller

Rich Miller — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:39:36 +0000

Readers:

This was posted by Friendster staff as a comment on another post on our site, but I believe it is relevant to this post:

Dear Friendster Community and those reading this blog,

As you may have seen, Friendster.com has undergone maintenance at various times over the past few days. Friendster’s unscheduled downtime was due to a power outage at our outsourced data center in Santa Clara, California where Friendster’s servers are co-located along side approximately 50 other companies. As a result, Friendster, as well as a number of other online companies, experienced unscheduled and unavoidable downtime. At this time, Friendster is back online and our team is working quickly to restore everything back to normal.

Additionally, you may have experienced some inconsistencies with your friend count on Friendster. All of your friend connections and data stored on Friendster are in tact and will be corrected shortly. It’s simply taking some time for us to restore each user account as Friendster has over 85 million user accounts globally.

Lastly, if you’ve received any on site messages or SMS text alerts regarding our downtime or your friend count, please disregard them as they were initiated by members of our community and do not contain accurate information about what happened.

Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

-The Friendster Team

For more information, please visit our blog and our Help Center.

Blog URL: http://blog.friendster.com/
Help Center URL: http://www.friendster.com/faq.php

By: Friendster Server DOWN! | Rhakateza Blog is Totally new in Blogsphere, not a porn site

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:13:39 +0000

[...] For those interested, Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge has posted indepth information about the data center outage that knocked out Friendster. [...]

By: Mike Abundo

Mike Abundo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:21:10 +0000

Notes to Friendster: make data cache less volatile, find a better data center, and keep customers informed during a crisis through a corporate blog in a separate data center.

By: Why Friendster Went Down | The Mike Abundo Effect

Why Friendster Went Down | The Mike Abundo Effect — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:14:54 +0000

[...] that brought down Friendster didn’t just leave them powerless. It also left their data center soaked in fire suppressant. “Regrettably, the maintenance did not go as planned and we suffered a [...]

By: Friendster downtime « Clintfloyd’s Blog

Friendster downtime « Clintfloyd’s Blog — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:25:10 +0000

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