{"id":10850,"date":"2014-05-28T23:48:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T23:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/29\/joyent-data-centre-goes-down-after-typo-promises-tighten-future\/"},"modified":"2014-05-28T23:48:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T23:48:12","slug":"joyent-data-centre-goes-down-after-typo-promises-to-tighten-up-in-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/joyent-data-centre-goes-down-after-typo-promises-to-tighten-up-in-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyent data centre goes down after typo, promises to tighten up in future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud is still fallible: Joyent&rsquo;s entire US-East-1 data centre went down yesterday, with the finger of blame pointed at a particularly fat finger which resulted in a monumental operator error.<\/p>\n<p>The problem has since been resolved, with all virtual machines back up and running, however according to a post-mortem blog post from the Joyent team, the minimum downtime for customers was 20 minutes and the maximum 149 minutes, with over 90% of instances recovered within an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the outage? A typo, put simply. Joyent picks up the story: &ldquo;The command to reboot the select set of new systems that needed to be updated was mistyped, and instead specified all servers in the data centre.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Unfortunately the tool in question does not have enough input validation to prevent this from happening without extra steps\/confirmation, and went ahead and issued a reboot command to every server &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud is still fallible: Joyent&rsquo;s entire US-East-1 data centre went down yesterday, with the finger of blame pointed at a particularly fat finger which resulted in a monumental operator error.<br \/>\nThe problem has since been resolved, with all vir&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}