Media Temple is down (Microsiervos too)

All Media Temple hosting activity is down. Has been down for about two hours now (21.00 GMT+2). Full stop. No announcement. Nothing. That includes my spanish blog Microsiervos and many other sites I host there, as well as many other blogs, the well-know Reinvigorate, StopDesign and other sites. It's like a really big black hole there.

We can't access the control panel, nor the Media Temple website either to open a support ticket or ask.

So waiting seems the only option.

Of course we can't send emails neither (well, there will always be Gmail). Everythings seems so crashed there! I don't have any info on what could have happened nor could find anything on the net. Nothing on Google News or the usual electronic magazines. So I tought of other real-time information and tried Technorati for some weblog posts on the matter. But nothing there.

Maybe this will get posted on Technorati and other people could find out about the problem.

I wonder if this is some big network problem related to Katrina damage on the backbones, the Media Temple communications lines or anything.

Media Temple is located in Los Angeles, and is not part of Bell South as far as I know, that was the most affected company in the area.

Let's wait and see.

PD: One of my co-bloggers is wondering if this could be related to the Big One earthquake in California or something… But hey, they promised the building was earthquarke-proof! ;-)

Update: OK, here is a possible explanation for this, a Big Blackout in LA:

Los Angeles blacked out – Blackout hits downtown Los Angeles at 1 pm PDT; the LAPD has been put on mandatory overtime. The «we are fucked" meter ratches up a notch.» [MetaFilter]

Also:

Blackout Hits Large Portion of Los Angeles – Outage is caused by DWP employee who «inadvertently cut a power cable.»

OK, so I wonder what UPS are for. Hello? Anybody?

Update: Everything was back online around 4.00am (GMT+2), about six hours downtime. Media Temple has an explanation of the Los Angeles incident and some «human errors» on their backup power management systems blaming some other people on the building where they are located.

Comments

[Nacho]

Some sites hosted at MediaTemple... and sucked into the big black hole right now ;-)

• Googlesightseeing.com
• Stylegala
• Shaun Inman/Mint
• MacZealots
• noovoodoo.net
• Typophile
• authenticgeek.net

[Alvy]

Well, they don't have traffic lights neither (at peak hour), people is trapped in the elevators, the LAX airport is barely holding and the police is in «full tactical alert» whatever that means. So probably there will be some work to do before restoring websites ;-)
Then they will take care of the guy who «inadvertently cut the power cable».

I think his job will be relocated to a federal POUND ME IN THE ASS prison ;-))

[Nacho]

WTF? from the MediaTeple website --brought to you by the Google cache

With 4,000 amps of battery backup, and four 1.5-megawatt turbo-charged generators, the facility can be separated from city water and power services and still remain fully operational for up to 28 days - the backup generators alone could power a city of 20,000 people.

So, I mean WTF??

[google.dirson.com]

Joder. Vaya putada!

[Alvy]

I seems everything is back online – around 04.00 am (GMT+2)