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ManagerJosh
Tue 10th May '05, 1:57am
Date: 05/09/05 Time: 09:55:37 PM PDT http://pics.ebay.com/aw/pics/x.gif
eBay experienced a power outage at a principal hosting facility in the Bay Area. Some eBay functions and listings are now available, and we are working to fully restore the rest of the site. We will keep you updated on progress, and we appreciate your patience.


http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml
Lumina
Tue 10th May '05, 6:49am
What is a .40 fee? Is it dollars?
ManagerJosh
Tue 10th May '05, 6:51am
I think its the $0.40 listing fee.
MGM
Tue 10th May '05, 11:15am
lol, first Google, now eBay... has the world gone mad?

MGM out
Dean C
Tue 10th May '05, 11:17am
At this rate they'll have almost as bad downtime as here ;)
AWS
Tue 10th May '05, 7:17pm
They need to move the servers from California. CA. has had problems for years with rolling power outages. The power company will take down grids at pre-determined times to conserve energy. Any company that wants uptime should get out of CA.
greywolff
Tue 10th May '05, 9:08pm
dont people believe in battery backups and generators anymore ?

i know i havent built server rooms and nodes since the mid 90's but dammmm
AWS
Tue 10th May '05, 11:05pm
Sure they do. They just can't afford the price of fuel to run them when power goes out.
Wayne Luke
Tue 10th May '05, 11:38pm
They need to move the servers from California. CA. has had problems for years with rolling power outages. The power company will take down grids at pre-determined times to conserve energy. Any company that wants uptime should get out of CA.

Time to update your information... We haven't had rolling power outages in the last two years and even when they were in effect they only occurred during the summer months during peak power periods.
AWS
Wed 11th May '05, 8:35am
Time to update your information... We haven't had rolling power outages in the last two years and even when they were in effect they only occurred during the summer months during peak power periods.
Hum. My brother lives in Santa Monica and said he still gets hit by them during the summer. From what he says they aren't like they used to be where power would be out for 2 or 3 hours.
Wayne Luke
Wed 11th May '05, 10:34am
Must be an issue with a city owned power company or some other cause. The grid has been fairly stable. I have it so Edison can turn off my air conditioning via remote control if power becomes an issue and they never have and I live in an area in California where it averages 110 degrees in the summer vs. Santa Monica's 80 degrees.

Where eBay is located many companies, such as Oracle, UUNet, and Apple, have their own power generation plants. Not just backup generators but generators that run all the time and they sell the excess back to the power grid.