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Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty
Anyhow, what sort of manners are these ? If I were a hosting provider, I would AT LEAST send an email to my customers telling them that from time t1 to t2 I would bring their servers down for maintenance, so the customers could AT LEAST put a notification on their web servers to their users before the shutdown, politesse oblige, what do you think ?
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well you can say they don't have a status page and do not post maintanace on a website or via email, but i have been working for an isp for 2 years and can tell you as long as humans do some work, it will fail from time to time.
depending on how expensive the hoster is the more backup's it has, i.e. more human maintainable. but even then the craziest thing you can imagine can happen:
someone switches _the_ master switch ..... blob .... all dark .... 1,5 mil domains offline .... 24 GBIT internet up/downlink dead .... 200 000 phones dead .....
and like on the NASA mars mission which missed mars some years ago (metric system
not usen in calcs.), is was a human error, someone wanted to work on high voltage and used the main switch, like he used to do it allways, no one told him that is was _the_ master switch.
in your case a fuse busted (if that is true), you can hardly send emails before a fuse explodes when you fix the power backup. and lightnings (like bullzosers) can hardly be totaly excluded from the danger list.
i could tell you examples of real life, but just think yourself when was the last local power outage, when was the last flooding somewhere you wantet to walk along, when was the last train/plain canceld you needed ?
s**t happens
* use backups *
Cheers MeMeD
[b.t.w. it happend 2002 in duesseldorf/germany at the level3 site, just for the suspicious. they have all you can dream of, double diesel genrators, 4x power backup, 3x aircondition, two physical differnt conncetion routes on 8+ telco carriers, handscanner access, security guards,..., and until 2002 they had a single big red main power switch for this, AFAIK they now have 2 with loud warning signals]