Something not worky at WordPress
Yesterday during the Great WordPress Outage of 2010 we huddled around our computers and used Twitter to keep in touch.
Today WordPress confirmed the news: The outage lasted about 110 minutes, affected 10.2 million blogs and deprived those blogs of about 5.5 million page views.
The outage was blamed on the actions of an unidentified “datacenter provider.”
Why is it that whenever anything in the world of technology goes wrong it is always the fault of some “datacenter provider?”
What a nebulous term. Who could these people be? Are they the same ones who make Soylent Green? Are these the people that thought Jay Leno at 10pm would be a good idea? Are they the ones responsible for the sequel to Phantom of the Opera?
And why is their identity being protected? The WordPress announcement about the outage only refers to this “datacenter provider” in the most mysterious of ways. Who is this shadow organization? Is it the Trilateral Commission? Do they have control over all the banks, not leaving WordPress any real options at being forthcoming? Why not release the name of the company? In fact, not only do I want the company identified, I want to know the name of the specific person who knocked over a can of Mountain Dew into some circuit board that caused the outage that started the domino effect that eventually took down the entire matrix.
This stuff is important. We’re talking about my free blog here, people!
By the way, the mathematician in me just couldn’t resist playing with those numbers that WordPress divulged in their statement. 10.2 million blogs down for 110 minutes being deprived of 5.5 million page views.
By my calculations, that means, assuming all things being linear (which they are probably not), WordPress must get about 72 million page views per day. With 10.2 million blogs that works out to be an average of 7 page views per blog per day.
Huh? What? People were getting excited about downtime affecting their blogs that get about 7 views a day? Even my POS blog gets more hits than that. 🙂
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As an old timer, I remember the heady days of yesteryear. Unless we remember the past we are doomed to repeat it. Today’s bit of regurgitated kibble is an ode to The Cloud. Over three years ago there was an event known only as “The Great WordPress Outage of 2010.” I hope you enjoy reliving the past as much as me!
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Actually, I have worked for/was the Datacenter Provider.
And it’s kind of funny when one goes dark.
Well, except for all the customers screaming…
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