I bet it would be frustrating when you see your own website or your favorite website fail to load and just “hang” there with the browser trying to search for the website.

This unfortunate incident happens to one of my friend website. Can you believe it, Boon’s website just went down without any warning from the web hosting provider. After more than 24 hours, did Boon received an e-mail from the hosting company notifying him that there were some outage. Wow! More than 24 hours, bet these monkeys were trying to salvage their customers data at the data center and forgot to sent out an outage e-mail/notices to their customers.

What could have happened?

The reason the hosting company given to Boon was an Apache burst occurred on their server thus bringing down the whole server. Could that be an excuse?

About 1 year ago, the data center which Boon’s web hosting provider used have an annual power maintenance at the tenants block which the data center is located. The power maintenance cause the whole data center to have a power outage.

WAIT!!! Did I mention power outage in a data center? I still remember my old pal have to work overtime during that day because the diesel generator and UPS somehow failed to elevate the power outage. Read more about the power outage incident that happened to this unfortunate dude that also hosted his server in the same data center here.

Of course not all data centers are immune to power failure, even the data center that hosted most of our government servers also encountered a power failure few years ago and cause a lot of government e-service to be unavailable. You can read about the power failure from this blog.

If you are wondering where do I host this blog, this blog is host on a server that is located in my bedroom with a 750kVA UPS

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