Early in the morning on Friday, May 23, 2008 power was lost at the HostDime data center that houses Wright PC Consulting, LLC’s leased server. While, that is not that big of a deal, there are both UPS and a Generator for such occasions, what followed is. Here is what happened and what is being done to prevent such future failures.

Nearly everyone has used one. They provide billions of search results, deliver millions of email messages and even stores your documents. However, if you are like most surfers, you have not even given a second thought to where they are. I am of course talking about Google data centers. It is no secret that Google [...]