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Lightning strike zaps EC2 Ireland

Lightning strike zaps EC2 Ireland

By Phil Wainewright on August 8, 2011

Amazon has told its EC2 customers in Europe some of them could face outages of as long as 24 to 48 hours as the cloud provider struggles to recover from a lightning strike that disrupted power supplies to its Dublin, Ireland data center. It took 3 hours to recover the first of the affected instances […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dublin, outage, Power supply | 1 Response

People Using Amazon Cloud: Get Some Cheap Insurance At Least

People Using Amazon Cloud: Get Some Cheap Insurance At Least

By Bob Warfield on April 24, 2011

I’m reading through Twitter streams, Amazon Forums, and other news sources trying to get a sense of how users are responding and what their problems are.  It’s pretty appalling out there.  B2B companies admitting they have no recent backups and just have to wait for it to come back online.  A company that claims patient’s […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services, backup, Cloud, Cloud Computing, outage | 1 Response

WordPress and the Dark Side of Multitenancy

WordPress and the Dark Side of Multitenancy

By Bob Warfield on June 10, 2010

Quite a bit of hubbub over WordPress’s recent outage.  A number of high profile blogs including Techcrunch, GigaOm, CNN, and your very own SmoothSpan use WordPress.  Matt Mullenweg told Read/WriteWeb: “The cause of the outage was a very unfortunate code change that overwrote some key options in the options table for a number of blogs. We […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Cloud, customer service, data center, multitenancy, outage, SaaS, wordpress | 10 Responses

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