A power loss could even bring MySpace down:
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Article origin: La hosting providers slowed by power problems
Continuing power problems at a Los Angeles telecom building have caused more outages for hosting companies, who are working to reassure frustrated customers about the extended downtime.
The Garland Building (1200 W. 7th) lost power for the second time in five days last Friday, causing significant downtime for both Dreamhost and Media Temple. A July 24 outage at the building that knocked MySpace offline was subsequently blamed on malfuctions in a power transfer system and UPS unit. On July 28, the building suffered another loss of power, attributed to an electrical short.
The problems have been most acute for DreamHost, which has been struggling with network troubles in between outages. DreamHost, which hosts about 285,000 hostnames, provided a detailed summary of the problems in a blog post titled Anatomy of a(n Ongoing) Disaster.
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La hosting providers slowed by power problems.
I didn't want to be malicious by quoting this article (accidents happen all the time), but if you are into any serious SEO (my main source of income), you should take care of your site's uptime.
Last time I've lost all of my search engine positions, due to couple of hours downtime (sites transfering between servers). I needed almost 3 weeks to get back...
