Seattle Data Center Outage Disrupts E-Commerce 118
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1sockchuck writes "A major power outage at Seattle telecom hub Fisher Plaza has knocked payment processing provider Authorize.net offline for hours, leaving thousands of web sites unable to take credit cards for online sales. The Authorize site is still down, but its Twitter account attributes the outage to a fire, while AdHost calls it a 'significant power event.' Authorize.net is said to be trying to resume processing from a backup data center, but there's no clear ETA on when Fisher Plaza will have power again."
Re:System failure (Score:3, Funny)
3: WEAK INFRASTRUCTRUCTURE
It's good to see that you've provided redundancy for the "TRUC" part of your infrastructure, but I'm concerned about the rest of it.
Re:sloppy engineering (Score:4, Funny)