really ... can someone explain to me why this shitty excuse for hosting exists? i have a client that INSISTED on using them ... and, of course, i get a call today "the web's down!" "yeah, mt is hosed. not my fault. call 'em and bitch."
ugh. what a pathetic excuse for a hosting provider.
haha, yeah, how pathetic. they can't even force one of the largest power grids in the country back on. geez. :P Dreamhost was down too, and they've been pretty reliable for me.
I would chalk this one up as being out of their hands.
w(here)tf are the generators? That is a must have for large hosting companies like mt. That is just laziness. (or profits? or crazy fuel prices? or both? They might have sold ther fuel for extra cash!).
Read the news bitch before you start bashing one of the greatest hosting companies in the states.
" Yes. (mt) Media Temple and the Garland Building (our LA data center building location) has one of the most sophisticated, redundant power systems in all of Los Angeles. As a matter of fact there are few buildings that rival the amount of redundancy and investment which has been put into the Garland Building's backup power systems. As explained however today; the building's power failure was caused by "human error" similar to the larger, citywide issue.
When the citywide power outage occurred, the Garland Building's main UPS and backup power generator systems activated successfully and provided power to the building during the early stages of the city's power outage. After approximately 30 minutes, the Garland Building engineers began to "further assist" the power situation which resulted in some form of "human error" on their part and interrupted the backup power service altogether thus causing the entire building to loose power. All tenants and data center occupants were instructed to immediately evacuate the building as the building engineers continued to "work" on the issue. After approximately 2 hours, building engineers restored power to the building near simultaneous to the rest of the Los Angeles power deprived areas. Building engineers state they are acutely aware of what caused the Garland Building power failure and have remedy to prevent such failures in the future.
(mt) Media Temple is awaiting more detailed and specific information which will be posted here when received. A great deal of time and money has been invested into this power system so we are watching this matter very closely. "