Comments on: Outage for Rackspace Customers

By: Downtime in 2009… « JANWIERSMA.COM

Downtime in 2009… « JANWIERSMA.COM — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:18:08 +0000

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By: Phil Barnhart

Phil Barnhart — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:59:29 +0000

It would be nice if Rackspace at least got the fundamentals right on their cloud hosting. I received an email informing me of a planned 5-hour outage for maintenance starting 18 July. They even sent me a link to the proposed outage web page they plan to use while the cloud service are down. I called their maintence to confirm that they would also deliver a 503 HTTP response during the outage along with their page.

The answer was no. Just a 200. Apparently no one had thought of this little recommended approach. I would prefer a little less fanatical and a little more attention to fundamentals. Its this kind of breakdown that drives many customer back to traditional hosting.

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By: BotchagalupeMarks for July 1st - 08:08 | IT Management and Cloud Blog

BotchagalupeMarks for July 1st - 08:08 | IT Management and Cloud Blog — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:23:15 +0000

[...] Outage for Rackspace Customers « Data Center Knowledge – Many sites hosted at Rackspace Hosting were offline this afternoon when the company’s data center in Grapevine, Texas lost power for about 45 minutes. Rackspace reported at 4:30 p.m. Eastern that it was “having an issue that is affecting part of our DFW data center.” Power was restored shortly after 5 p.m., but the company continued to manually bring up servers that did not restart properly when power was restored, a task that lasted well into the evening. [...]

By: Rick Falls

Rick Falls — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:14:41 +0000

20 years ago we didn’t hardly have VCR’s,
and now when a server goes down for a few hours
it makes waves and even involves celeb names in the story.

What a great time tio be a big kid.

I’m sure that Rich was just name dropping for a little buzz, right Rich?

By: Girish Bhat

Girish Bhat — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:29:33 +0000

Rich:
Do you have any details (type, power, servers,etc) on the Grapevine DC?
Girish

By: Rich Miller

Rich Miller — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:12:43 +0000

It’s not true! I found that Tweet through a search! How do I come up with plausible deniability on this one?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:54:32 +0000

What’s most interesting about this article is the revelation that Rich Miller is following Justin Timberlake on Twitter.

By: margaret

margaret — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:01:16 +0000

reasonably sure JT has twitter ghost writers. but then again, he is a silicon valley investor (robo.to).