Ben J. Christensen

Software Development and Other Random Stuff

Rackspace DFW Power Issues. Again.

Twice in the last two weeks the Rackspace DFW (Dallas/Fort-Worth) data center has lost power to sections of its facility.

Message from Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier

June 30, 2009

Rackspace community,

Yesterday afternoon at 3:15CDT our data center in Dallas experienced an interruption in power to portions of the facility.  The interruption caused customer servers to lose power and go down.

Notice * July 7, 2009, 11:44 am CDT: Today a portion of our Dallas data center experienced a brief power interruption. Rackspace is aware of this issue and is currently investigating it. We will be sending out periodic updates as more information becomes available.

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I commend their transparency through the use of Twitter and their blog, but rather disconcerting since it’s the datacenter I use and pay a premium for the amount of “redundancy” they are supposed to have, and the fact they had issues in November 2007 as well. More information here about that outage.

Filed under: Production Problems

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