News: Recent Outages

Author: Reorx
Last Update: Sunday, July 22 2001

Greetings.

BayMOO has experienced several recent outages. The first was a Thursday
morning power outage caused by a failed power transformer in the area.
Thursday afternoon we experienced massive network issues. Extremely
high latency and periods of no connectivity were caused by a train derailment
and fire in Baltimore, MD which melted several major fibre-optic cables.
And finally, some time on Friday the new BayMOO server locked up. We were
not able to restore the server until last night at around 8pm.

We apologise for the recent downtimes. Please be assured that we are taking
all steps necessary to reduce preventable downtime, and that we will keep
everyone informed when circumstances beyond our control cause outages.

-The Janitors