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Router takes down Wordpress and 9 Million blogs
Ricardo Trejo
Over 9 million blogs are hosted by Wordpress, and when the entire network went down earlier yesterday, sites like TechCrunch and the rest of the 9 million were unaccessible, making people everywhere scratch their head and wonder, "what the heck caused it?"
The answer might surprise you:
“We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to a core router by one of our datacenter providers messed up our network in a way we haven’t experienced before, and broke the site. It also broke all the mechanisms for failover between our locations in San Antonio and Chicago. All of your data was safe and secure, we just couldn’t serve it.
We need to dig deeper and find out exactly what happened, why, and how to failover more gracefully next time and isolate problems like this so they don’t affect our other locations.”
-Matt Mullenburg, founder of Wordpress
It's good to know that months, and even years, of hard work can all go down the drain in a mere second due to one bonehead mistake. People must've been glad to here it was only some downtime instead of something much worse, like massive data loss.
