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Introducing financial statements

Posted on February 2, 2008 by Joey Day

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We’ve added a new section to our site today: financial statements. The new page contains public records of our finances and is designed to increase our accountability and transparency to the Homestar Runner Wiki and FellowSites communities.

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Update on last Friday’s outage

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Joey Day

Here’s the final report from the data center regarding last Friday’s outage:

We believe that a little after 8:30 P.M. MST on Friday, 1/25/2008 the janitor either accidentally or intentionally triggered the Emergency Power Off (EPO) system for UPS1. As a result of the EPO system activation, all customers equipment connected to UPS1 lost power. The power loss was to both PDU1 and PDU2 and all panels (A through D) on both PDUs. The Janitor did not report the power EPO system activation, and left the site immediately after the EPO system was triggered.

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Explanation for recent outages

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Joey Day

We’re terribly sorry for the recent outages. The first one (Friday night) was apparently caused by a power event at the datacenter, and the second (this morning) was planned (though I received no advance warning) to repair damage to some failing components which were thought to have contributed the power event. Here are the reports I received from Goleman Networks for both outages:

Friday’s outage:

Date: Friday, January 25, 2008
Time: ~9:00 PM MDT
Duration: ~3 hours 30 minutes
Scope: SLC facility

Affected equipment:

All servers and equipment residing on our SLC network suffered a power outage starting at approximately 9:00 PM on Friday January 25th due to a power event at the datacenter.

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