Another day, another Rackspace outage. The hosting company had a complete and total failure today that took down a number of big sites on the Internet, including ours. This has been happening all too often in recently months, including downtime just last month.
The failure apparently originated in the company’s Dallas-area server farm. Some other sites that are currently include: 37signals, Brizzly, Scoble’s blog, all of the sites hosted by LaughingSquid, Tumblr custom domains.
This is another bad blackeye for the company, but they are generally responsive with other issues we’ve had throughout our time with them. But until they can prove to be more reliable, we’ve decided to get a backup version of TechCrunch up and running at another datacenter, for when someone inevitably trips over a powercord at the Dallas Rackspace center again.
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