Key Sites Offline Today; Major SF Power Outage May Be To Blame

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J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

What Do Netflix, Technorati, Craigslist, Typepad, Vox and LiveJournal all have in common? They’re offline today, that’s what. A power outage in San Francisco has left at least 20,000 customers without electricity and might be partially to blame. These datacenters are supposed to have redundant power sources, so it may not be the entire story. If you have more info, please comment and we’ll update the post.

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