The Doc Searls Weblog points to an article by David Sifry, listing their cascading troubles that started with a fire at their colocation facility. I went through a similar learning experience while I was at BugCentral.com and we had our servers hosted by USDataCenters. Short answer: you should have a local UPS on your machine with ‘soft shutdown’ software in place so that your box doesn’t get corrupted when the rest of the facility goes down.
There’s a Mr. Murphy here, and he’s got a torch.
David Sifry: The colo fire has led to a cascade of failures…