LJ's problems
Jul. 24th, 2007 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoIt's difficult for me to understand just what this problem is that LJ and SixApart have with power. The technology exists and is well understood, yet power outages that last only minutes leave them fumbling for hours. It seems to have always been this way. Every time, their backup power system fails them. Every time they say they will find out what the problem was and fix it. And the next time it's just the same.
I can understand how an uncontrolled shutdown could make restarting such a large network of machines into a tricky task, but that too needs better planning and should not take so long. The real issue is avoiding the uncontrolled shutdown. It would seem that they can't manage to sustain power for five minutes, even though that really should be all it takes to achieve a controlled and orderly close that would allow a quick and efficient restart.
I can understand how an uncontrolled shutdown could make restarting such a large network of machines into a tricky task, but that too needs better planning and should not take so long. The real issue is avoiding the uncontrolled shutdown. It would seem that they can't manage to sustain power for five minutes, even though that really should be all it takes to achieve a controlled and orderly close that would allow a quick and efficient restart.
