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Re: [LUG] Devon is offline...

 

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Gordon Henderson
<gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Roland Tarver wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Gordon Henderson
>> <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>>
>>>> No www.devon.gov.uk for now...
>>>>
>>>> Aparently they have a "power surge" earlier today.
>>>>
>>>> Must have been a f'ing good one to blow up their UPSs and protection in
>>>> their data suite. No DCC computers can be used right now - no remote
>>>> sites,
>>>> no remote access. Nothing.
>>>>
>>>> Wifey is most un-amused.
>>>>
>>>> Imagine not having an off-site backup for a corporate web site as
>>>> important as devon.gov.uk ...
>>>>
>>>> Imagine not being able to use any computer in DCC right now...
>>>
>>> Oh, and everyone has been told not to use the phone either! Not that they
>>> can call anyone as the phone-list is kept online...
>
>> Nightmare!
>
> Yes. You now have 3000+ people who can't do their job. This is costing DCC a
> stupid amount of money an hour in terms of lost work.
>
> Their website is still not online and wifey has been told not to expect full
> restoration of services until 11am tomorow.
>
> I guess that whoever built their data centre for them did a poor job. All
> their desktops seems to have survived the power cut and subsequent "surge"
> so why didn't the data centre? I want to see nothing short of a mushroom
> cloud over their data centre as an explanation... Normally I'd not care
> less, but this is my council tax money that's being wasted here.
>
> Did someone mention building a data centre in the south west? Lets do it
> and get DCC as customer No. 1 ...
>
> Ah, looks like the website is back - well, almost... Click on a link and I
> get:
>
>  WebEngine error: Could not open database connect: ORA-12541: TNS:no
>  listener [SQLConnect failed to attach to the target server. ]
>
> Ho hum...
>
> Gordon
>
>
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Perhaps you should submit a bid/suggestions?
Roly :-)

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