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Power outage in Los Angeles, servers down

September 14th, 2005

We were affected by the power outage.
Our servers are in the Garland building in downtown Los Angeles. They have a UPS backup, but after the batteries ran out the generators failed to take over. The power outage began at about 12 pm and our servers shutdown at around 2 pm.
We were fortunate in that the downtime was only about 10 minutes, and then power was restored and most machines came back up on their own.
One of our servers didn't boot, so I went to the data center to manually reboot it. There were a lot of other people there doing the same.
This is a good wake-up call for disaster recovery plans.

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