Our web servers just happen to be located in the city of L.A. Our servers are backed up by a diesel reserve that is capable of seamlessly supporting the IDC for 28 days. The Power to the building is drawn from two substations and is on a preferred service grid of the Los Angeles DWP that only provides service to one other building. The facility is also served by a second power grid for redundancy.LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- About 700,000 electric customers in Los Angeles lost power Monday afternoon after a worker mistakenly cut a wrong line, triggering a cascade of problems in the city's power grid, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said.
About 50 percent of the department's 1.4 million customers were affected by the outage, which began at about 1 p.m. (4 p.m. ET).
Both power grids failed and so did the diesel power generators. The servers crashed when more than 1,000 people were on the main page and another 100 were on the forums. Since data was being pulled from the database when the server crashed the database was corrupted.
The site is back online (Duh you are looking at it) and the dbase has been repaired. Sorry for the site being down, but the problem was thousands of miles away and due to the power outage in LA.
Let me know if any "issues" are seen on the site or forum.
