Internet Archive Blames 'Environmental Factors' For Overnight Outages

The Internet Archive took a tumble overnight after "environmental factors" downed the Wayback Machine, leaving archive.org wobbling in a way that might bring a smile to the faces of certain publishers wishing for its demise. From a report: According to the organization, there was a "brief power outage in one of our datacenters," which was followed by "environmental factors," causing the service blackout. Those environmental factors are likely to be an increase in heat following a cooling outage. By this morning, The Internet Archive was reporting that things were back up and running again. However, some users (this writer included) are still experiencing the odd error or two when accessing the organization's services.

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[backslashdot]

I really hope people from around the world are taking backups of the internet archive. Will need it in case of nuclear war so that we'll know what not to do when rebuilding civilization.

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[Darinbob]

Do you really want civilization to be rebuilt upon the structures that led to the current state of the web? Maybe Civilization 9.0 can reform with better foundation? (I'm assuming 9.0 but I've lost count)

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[backslashdot]

That’s why I said we’ll know what not to do. Without that guide we would repeat what we did before.

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[geekmux]

I really hope people from around the world are taking backups of the internet archive. Will need it in case of nuclear war so that we'll know what not to do when rebuilding civilization.

You act as if we humans are actually smart enough to learn from the worst of our history.

As if World War Two wasn’t enough evidence.

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[LazarusQLong]

Yeah, it is really sad that some humans say we must study history to keep from repeating the mistakes we previously made, but then the larger Horde of Humanity just LOOOOOOVVVVEEES repeating those mistakes.

"environmental factors" ???

[oldgraybeard]

What a bunch of PR/Management double speak!! Sounds like the data center had a catastrophic failure with their cooling infrastructure. Why not just say that instead of "environmental factors"?

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[bill_mcgonigle]

Have you read their colo contract?

Is there a non-disparagement clause?

I don't know the answers and don't read minds in public.

Haven't been experiencing any problems

[nikkipolya]

Strange, I have been browsing away (reading some old MIR titles books) for the past many hours and haven't experienced any problems.

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[test321]

By reading this news I was very concerned that the Internet Archive had a single point of failure and could be lost by just one fire or flood. Your comments make me feel slightly more calm. BTW Wikipedia says they have a mirror in The Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, maybe you were getting data from the mirror.

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[LuniticusTheSane]

They have three different Data Centers in California as well as data backups in Egypt, Canada, and the Netherlands.

Warming is saving lives. Cold is the big killer

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