Encyclopedia Britannica were given a present today when online information goldmine Wikipedia crased due to an over-heating problem that started in its European data centre.
Apologising for the Wikipedia outage a spokesman wrote in the company blog:
"Due to an overheating problem in our European data center many of our servers turned off to protect themselves. As this impacted all Wikipedia and other projects access from European users, we were forced to move all user traffic to our Florida cluster, for which we have a standard quick failover procedure in place, that changes our DNS entries.
"However, shortly after we did this failover switch, it turned out that this failover mechanism was now broken, causing the DNS resolution of Wikimedia sites to stop working globally. This problem was quickly resolved, but unfortunately it may take up to an hour before access is restored for everyone, due to caching effects."
It is expected that 90 percent of school homework will be handed in late tomorrow.
Comments
X said: Yes Jeff
Harry Wood said: the company blog You mean the the organisations blogWikimedia is a not-for-profit organisation Not a company Its more like a charity than a company
Jeff said: Is that late homework thing a joke