OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/26072/Sorry_about_the_outage Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 23 May 2013 17:02:10 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Kaput? http://www.osnews.com/thread?522075 http://www.osnews.com/thread?522075 Is kaputt an english word now? Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kragil) Comments Oops http://www.osnews.com/thread?522081 http://www.osnews.com/thread?522081 Did someone try to post a story with diacritic marks? Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MechaShiva) Comments Outage? http://www.osnews.com/thread?522113 http://www.osnews.com/thread?522113 Isn't this the second time in 4 months a "raid controller" is being blamed for osnews outage?

http://www.osnews.com/story/25646/We_re_back_up_and_running_

When you outsource these sort of things it's hard to know what's really going on. Just recently one provider I've been dealing with blamed an external DDOS attack for connectivity outages, however the logs revealed the server was physically off during the outage. Unfortunately a DDOS doesn't do that.

I've also had my fair share of hosting providers who try to blame the client for internal hosting issues. It turns out I'm extremely proficient at pinpointing the real problems, but it's routine lying such as these that make me distrust any claims of service providers these days. I've also been on the other end too, where my employing company would cover up screw ups, nothing was ever our fault.

I'm just ranting here of course, and unfortunately having trust broken at some providers has lead me to be cynical of all providers. Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Alfman) Comments RE: Kaput? http://www.osnews.com/thread?522152 http://www.osnews.com/thread?522152
Is kaputt an english word now?

Yes, it's been used in English for over a hundred years. Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Athlander) Comments Anyway http://www.osnews.com/thread?522157 http://www.osnews.com/thread?522157 Good that you are back up and running! Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (telltec) Comments Not a DDoS then? http://www.osnews.com/thread?522181 http://www.osnews.com/thread?522181 With the Raspberry Pi site suffering a DDoS during the same period, I was wondering if there was a general attack on the smaller tech sites going on.

I still don't understand why anyone would want to take the RPi site down; other than release issues that were resolved a while back, I can't fathom who they could have pissed off. Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morgan) Comments RE: Outage? http://www.osnews.com/thread?522226 http://www.osnews.com/thread?522226 Fair point, but that wasn't a RAID issue. Not everyone can have a datacenter in their house.

Once we had an actual cable issue. The cable had actually loosened to the point that the connections weren't working. But the RAID card actually failed yesterday. Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments We... http://www.osnews.com/thread?522240 http://www.osnews.com/thread?522240 missed you. Glad you're back. Sorry, can't resist. The English spelling of Kaputt is kaput. Silly Americans can't spell. Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (imaginant) Comments RE: Not a DDoS then? http://www.osnews.com/thread?522361 http://www.osnews.com/thread?522361 Some people have nothing better to do with their time, mainly because they lack the necessary skills to do anything better with their time. Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments