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InterNAP Power Outage Curse?

Om Malik writes over on his GigaOm blog:

InterNAP, the data center company which has been around for a while has been hit with a strange sort of a curse - curse of power outages. A few weeks ago, a power outage in LA caused one of their data centers to hit the deck, taking along with it MySpace, the social networking giant.

John Cook of SeattlePI points to a story about InterNAP being hit by another power outage, this time in Seattle’s Fisher Plaza facility. One more such outage, and it will seem like a trend. Maybe InterNAP needs some divine intervention to prevent that from happening! On a more serious note, these two incidents go on to show the fragility of the modern web infrastructure!

posted by Fergie @ 8/17/2006 12:57:00 PM