Colour me suspicious

[chickenfeet]

Colour me suspicious but I don't believe a word of what the LJ corporate lackeys are saying about the current service disruption. Apparently a full system outage was caused by scheduled maintenance on one of two power supplies. That just doesn't compute. They obviously ballsed something up but aren't saying.

Currently, Live Journal Status Report has a message timed 4.38 pm GMT that reads:

Our data center is currently performing maintenance on one of our two power feeds this evening. LiveJournal is currently unavailable at this time. We are working on restoring access as quickly as possible.

Now, 4.38pm GMT is 8.38am PST (ie local to the data centre) which isn't evening by even California standards. It looks like they are trying to hide the fact that they have been clueless since some time yesterday evening California time by messing with the time stamp but not editing the message. This would at least be consistent with the apparent timing of the outage.

So odds on some kind of refund or even an apology?

Comments

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

This is the first time I have been able to get on all (so that is the last eight hours...

First there was just a blank screen, then a message that Six Apart was down, and then some stuff about LJ.

It is still being dead slow in the UK.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Intermittently available and dead slow when it is 'up' here.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

At 9am this morning (GMT) it said 'caused by a power implosion at our datacenter'. That was replaced, around 10.30, by 'power outtage at our datacenter. at our datacenter' (sic). We think someone was told to get rid of the words 'power implosion' and took the replacement a bit too literally.

[white_hart]

This is about the third weekend running that Livejournal has had problems: the first time it's gone down completely, but there have been a lot of database errors which have made it practically impossible to use.

I seem to recall that paid users were credited with extra time after the Great Livejournal Blackout of 2005, but then that was pre-Six Apart...

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I am going to demand my money back!

and then I remember I don't pay them any money...