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Garp · 17-03-2011, 21:14

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Originally Posted by Desmo

I didn't really go searching around for where the data centre was at the time so agree with you, although it's close enough

I saw other reports saying "Fire in London data centre" and I've often heard Maidenhead and Reading based data centres being described as "London" too. Claranet has(had?) a point of presence out in Reading (basically a network node where leased lines and *DSL stuff could connect to into our infrastructure). Some international customers found out and insisted they wanted to host servers there as it was a cheaper "London" data centre, but were baffled why we told them it would always ensure it would take 2+ hours to get someone hands on there from our actual London data centres in the Docklands.

Mark · 17-03-2011, 22:11

That'd explain why I was having problems picking up mail at lunchtime.

Now checking my server is OK - it's in the same DC and has some huge databases that don't like power cuts.

Edit - Ironically me bringing it down to do the checks has done more damage than the outage. Should have checked it wasn't updating first. :/

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Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	That'd explain why I was having problems picking up mail at lunchtime. Now checking my server is OK - it's in the same DC and has some huge databases that don't like power cuts. Edit - Ironically me bringing it down to do the checks has done more damage than the outage. Should have checked it wasn't updating first. :/ Last edited by Mark; 17-03-2011 at 22:26.