“My objection to cloud computing is... Cloud computing is not only the future of computing, it is the present, and the entire past of computing is all cloud.”
- Larry Ellison
Incident ID: 73
Incident Type:
Outage
Summary: Maintenance slipup caused a 5-minute power outage, but effects on users continued for hours
During Scheduled maintenance on the power distribution units (PDUs) in their data center, Rackspace encountered an electrical short causing 5 minutes of down time without power. The outage of their services however lasted much longer for many of their customers; effecting both Rackspace cloud sites and their Slicehost virtual servers. The outage was the third outage in two months, costing the company over $2.5 million in service credits.
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Number Affected: Unknown
Organization: Rackspace, Inc.
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