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msg:4482538 | 9:27 am on Aug 7, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Datacenter Cables Cut Putting Wikipedia Offline [bbc.co.uk] Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia was knocked offline on Monday thanks to two accidentally cut cables near a data centre in Florida.
The site, and various associated services, were inaccessible or extremely sluggish for over two hours beginning at around 1430 BST on Monday.
A status web page showed various parts of the Wikimedia network as suffering performance issues.Wikipedia ruled out any suggestion of malicious intent being behind problem.
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After the cables were repaired, it took another hour for basic service on Wikipedia to be restored.
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g1smd
msg:4482540 | 9:42 am on Aug 7, 2012 (gmt 0) |
What else went down? They're not the only user of that datacentre are they?
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piatkow
msg:4483042 | 7:18 pm on Aug 8, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Accidental severing of telecoms cables isn't exactly uncommon. Normally its the users who get isolated rather than the data centre.
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creeking
msg:4483058 | 8:44 pm on Aug 8, 2012 (gmt 0) |
hmmm. I didn't find a page on wikipedia about this outage.
maybe it's too soon or I didn't search for the right terms.
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