Comments on: Wikimedia site outage, 6 August, 2012

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Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:06:10 +0000

[...] site outage caused by a fiber cut between our two data [...]

By: Casey Brown

Casey Brown — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:22:37 +0000

@jolison (comment #2): We all agree that any outage is unacceptable. As of December 2011, the average uptime was 99.97% though, so it seems the sysadmins are actually doing a great job. We can try as hard as hard as we can to minimize downtime—all sites do that—but unfortunately sometimes there are circumstances beyond the system administrators' control. As CT said, the Foundation is paying to have redundant cables that would prevent errors like this, so the amount of money allocated to tech isn't at issue here. It seems the issue was with the third-party company that manages the datacenter, an issue that we wouldn't have known about without this happening. Hopefully issues like this can be avoided in the future.

By: jolison

jolison — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:47:55 +0000

With a budget of over 20 millions of dollars coming from the fundraiser this is pretty much unacceptable. 90% of the money should go to technology aspects like this. Outage is not an option.

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By: CT Woo

CT Woo — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:18:24 +0000

An update with root cause is now available – http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Site_issue_Aug_6_2012 ,

CT Woo

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Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:59:50 +0000

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[...] severing the cables that connected the site’s servers to each other and the rest of the world.According to the Wikimedia foundation, the disruption in service was noticed somewhere around 6:15 am PDT, and the result of [...]