dealnews Site Issues

If dealnews.com seemed to be downright flaky over the last 12 hours, that's because we had some power issues at our web hosting center. Top 5 Things that might have caused us to lose power today:
  1. The Cloverfield monster
  2. Good ol' Jeff tripped on the power cord again. Ah, Jeff, you clumsy man!
  3. All electricity diverted to shave off beards we grew in homage to Letterman & Conan
  4. Too busy making a list of why we might potentially lose power (ironically, we lost power while doing this and failed to notice)
  5. A power circuit failed in our primary datacenter. Normally the redundancy of our network and systems architecture would have avoided any interruption. Unfortunately, due to a piece of networking equipment being out for maintenance this simple power issue turned into a site outage. (yes, the actual reason is only #5)

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