DRF down?

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

Latest tweet says they don't expect it to be up before tomorrow.

Seriously??

[Benny]

DRF = KODAK

Dominate a business then become obsolete.

[luvalab]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Seriously??

Most major hosting companies have generator backups and a quick power outage shouldn't be an issue. However, if the actual equipment/server was damaged and they chose to move to another server location it could take up to 24hrs for the ip address to propagate.

[Stickhorse]

This outage will effect the print edition of the DRF, expect delays.

[Rudeboyelvis]

How in the hell can this possibly occur in this day and age? Is it 1995 or something? You have no redundancy whatsoever? NONE??!!! No backup server farm? No tertiary cloud? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING??!! Wow. And these hacks have your credit card data...

Beyond bush league by leaps and bounds - Simply incomprehensible.

Brightside - we'll get two free formulators after the the GP P6 is over.... LOL

[joeydb]

Not trying to pick on DRF but the timing couldn't be worse. First the printing issue for the Derby, another printing issue since, and now total access failure that threatens the Gulfstream Pick-6 depending on when they get it working again.

Horrible luck and some contingency planning shortfalls to be sure.

[Walt Gekko]

The initial outage on Derby week I suspect was due to flooding at DRF's data center (that was the same part of lower Manhattan I believe that flooded when Sandy hit) as that part of Manhattan got hit I believe with 5-6" of rain the Tuesday night and Wednesday before the Derby. It's quite possible this power outage was related to that rainstorm before the Derby much like what happened with the Montauge Street subway tunnel that connects lower Manhattan and Brooklyn after Sandy flooded it (they did get it re-opened for nine months before having to close the tunnel last August to completely rebuild it, which won't be completed until sometime in October I believe).

Wouldn't shock me if power problems related to the May 1 storm caused this.

And the title should have been corrected to the storms, not flooding on 5/1.

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Walt Gekko

The initial outage on Derby week I suspect was due to flooding at DRF's data center (that was the same part of lower Manhattan I believe that flooded when Sandy hit) as that part of Manhattan got hit I believe with 5-6" of rain the Tuesday night and Wednesday before the Derby. It's quite possible this power outage was related to that rainstorm before the Derby much like what happened with the Montauge Street subway tunnel that connects lower Manhattan and Brooklyn after Sandy flooded it (they did get it re-opened for nine months before having to close the tunnel last August to completely rebuild it, which won't be completed until sometime in October I believe).

Wouldn't shock me if power problems related to the May 1 storm caused this.

LOLOLOLOLOL

Hurricane Sandy, dude?! Really??!!

WHY ARE THE ONLY SERVERS IN THE DRF WORLD GETTING FLOODED WHEN THERE ARE BILLIONS OF OTHER SERVERS AVAILABLE THAT ARE NOT GETTING FLOODED? WHY IS THERE NO REDUNDANCY? IT LITERALLY COSTS PENNIES A DAY FOR THIS NOT TO HAPPEN.

NO EXCUSE, "WALT"

[Walt Gekko]

It does seem a little strange, but I was using Sandy as a reference point and what happened to the Montauge tunnel that is still being rebuilt.

NYC got 5-6" of rain the Tuesday and Wednesday before the Derby and that part of Manhattan as I remember is prone to flooding. That doesn't excuse DRF for not having a backup server for situations like this, but if they did get wires corroded by damage from the earlier rain, it's possible this created a huge power failure that caused the entire system to be corrupted.