San Francisco Power Outage Knocks Out Major Web Sites

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Sporadic power outages cascaded across San Francisco for two hours on Tuesday, causing minor disruptions in the downtown business district, but knocking out Craigslist, the world's most popular local site.

But a power failure at a 227,000 square foot data centre in downtown San Francisco knocked out a variety of popular Web sites with ties to the city, including Craigslist, the world's seventh most popular English-language online destination.

Also hit were TypePad, which plays host to many popular blogs, Technorati, the top blog search site, Netflix, the movie rental service, Yelp, a local entertainment review site, and Gamespot, a gaming site owned by CNET Networks Inc..

San Francisco Power Outage Knocks Out Major Web Sites [uk.reuters.com]

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I was always amazed at hosts bragging about their diesel generators backed data centers.

Looks like poor SF centers did not have any or they proved to be out of order? Or what?