DE-Cix – Power failure leads to Downtime in germany(heimatzeitung.de) |
DE-Cix – Power failure leads to Downtime in germany(heimatzeitung.de) |
Keep in mind this is only one of the many DE-CIX datacenters, they exist in at least 8 datacenters in Frankfurt: https://twitter.com/goebelmeier/status/983453047543214081
Only those peers who are single-homed to Interxion FRA5 / DE-CIX6 will have experienced an outage.
I am concerned that this even happened in a place important like this.
pic related: http://img.pr0gramm.com/2018/04/09/9286baa4b2261184.jpg
The article states internet was down for users at around 10pm (I expirenced it live). So they might have been on generators for two hours (speculation).
Shouldn't we decentralize more?
> The whole of DE-CIX isn't down.
Largely agreed with you, though as general advice I would say that redundancy by adding more exchanges to your network serves you better than adding diverse connections to a single exchange.
More likely, the timestamp in the picture is UTC, which corresponds to 22:00 CEST, cf. [0]
In fact, we're hit by this again, down again at 22:09:19 EST for me and still down. Their website is broken too (https://www.de-cix.net/) and their email servers are offline which makes contacting them amusing.
Not much to be done, really, fortunately the impact for us is very trivial.
