MySpace Down Again
Update #2: MySpace is back online and whatever the issues were seem to have been fixed. MySpace spokesperson blamed the outage on power outages caused by unseasonably hot summer in Southern California.
A power outage seems to have hit the data center that hosts MySpace.com, the largest social network in the world. This is the second day in a row we have heard similar reports, though today we have managed to grab a screen shot. Ironically, the www.myspace.com still shows an ad – at least the FIM has its priorities right.
But seriously, it is hard to believe that a service this large could just have one data center. Have they not heard of redundancy? I am pretty sure there is more to the story. One can only imagine how millions of MySpace users feel right now. Mashable has more information on this developing story.
Update: Jake says that MySpace is in the Equinix data center.
Mark Fletcher explains the technical issues involving MySpace and other social networks, and why MySpace could be in one datacenter.
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The facility is LA Equinix building.
Equinix facilities are usually said to be some of the best… wonder what the story is.
Social networking sites rely heavily upon their (constantly updating) databases and by their nature are non-trivial to scale and/or replicate across datacenters. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if MySpace was only in one datacenter. Many (most?) Internet services are not replicated across datacenters.
Om, I might be being naive here, but that looks like a Flash game, not an ad. So I bet those millions of MySpace users are saying “damn, I got eaten by a ghost again.”
Also, if you view source, the comments (from past outages) are sort of funny. :)
I think its really ironic that mashable is down right now…
Check out http://www.apbctr.com. Its a new site, still in beta testing, but hey if myspace keeps going down – its at least something to play with. Plus the servers are not located in the desert or California!!
Jake,
You can do remote replication, just get a couple of dedicated links and you’d be ready to go. WordPress.com, with probably 1/400 resources that Myspace has already does this.
That said, I am just guessing here without having any knowledge of the inner workings. So I would cut them some slack.
God. can’t communicate!
or it could be tila being bipolar
if myspace doesn’t come back within the hour, i’m going to start killing kittens… no, really… i’ll do it…
lol@tila…
this is interesting to me, given the number of users myspace, this would be the equivilant of something like Yahoo or Google going down for a day, which is unheard of, but people are so used to the bugs in myspace that it seems almost normal that its down.
I must admit though, it is very complex and must be difficult to run.