The Hi5 site was knocked offline at 1:50 PM Pacific by a power loss in our Data Center in San Francisco. We lost about 1/4 of our servers which negatively impacted performance. We have disabled access while we evaluate the impact of the outage.
Update (3:45 PM): Our engineering and operations team just finished checking all systems. We are starting to restore access. Thanks for your patience.
Update (4:10 PM): This outage knocked out other popular Internet services like LiveJournal, Craigslist, Yelp, and Technorati. Here's some news coverage of the outage for the curious:
Update (3:45 PM): Our engineering and operations team just finished checking all systems. We are starting to restore access. Thanks for your patience.
Update (4:10 PM): This outage knocked out other popular Internet services like LiveJournal, Craigslist, Yelp, and Technorati. Here's some news coverage of the outage for the curious:
- At least 20,000 without power in downtown S.F.
- Power Outages?!
- Power outages hit 50,000 PG&E customers