UPDATE: Seems back to normal...
Cryptogon was down today for about 3 1/2 hours due to a municipal power failure (dead transformer) at Blue Host's data center in Orem, Utah.
I was more concerned with all of the clients I've
referred to Blue Host, over the past couple of months, than I was with my own show.
"Oh sh*t," I thought, "I feel like a real idiot."
HA! Thankfully, they were all still up and running! A bunch of older clients, including me, just had UPS, which ran down after a few minutes. The newer clients were covered by diesel generator backup.
Here's where it gets interesting...
All Blue Host domains (165,000+ of them) are now---believe it or not---powered by a diesel generator.
The BlueHost guys moved the boxes that weren't connected to diesel generator power (Cryptogon was hosted on one of these) to a different set of racks that does have diesel generator power.
If Cryptogon goes down again, it probably means the generator ran out of juice.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! I love how fragile this sh*t really is.
posted by Kevin at 8:27 PM