Seattle Data Center Outage Disrupts E-Commerce

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

[eln]

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

[eln]

Focusing on something that 99% of us screw up at one point or another, particularly when our primary focus at the time is probably getting the service back online rather than checking the calendar to see if it's Daylight Saving Time or not, for me is always a red flag that you're an insufferable pedant.