Rolling Space-out
We're really feeling the heat here in California. I went to a wedding this weekend that was held outdoors in 115-degree heat. The good news is that we're all five pounds lighter. At any rate, whenever we get this really hot weather, our power grids are stressed and we sometimes experience power blackouts.
The New York Times is reporting today that MySpace was done in by a power outage this weekend:
The popular MySpace social-networking Web site went off line over the weekend due to power problems at a key data center in Los Angeles, the company said. MySpace, which is the second busiest site in the United States behind Yahoo, lost power for six hours on Saturday and about 12 hours Sunday night and into Monday morning.
During the outage, MySpace engineers replaced the frontdoor with a Flash Pac-Man game and a message explaining the outage.
Does MySpace have a singular point of failure? The "key data center" in LA can't be the only storage center, can it? In an age where distributed data storage is a must, a localized power outage brings down a site with a huge, global user base?
Anyway, if the unreliability of MySpace gives you the itch to start up your own social networking site, People Aggregator can do the heavy lifting for you.
A word of warning, though. You're likely to have some competition — not only from all of the social networking sites already out there, but now MTV is getting into the game.
