Daniel and I are in  Burlingame today and tomorrow attending the Velocity conference. I’ll be liveblogging this on my NetworkWorld blog.

As expensive as it was, it was absolutely the right system to move BitPusher’s critical infrastructure off of California’s over-burdened power grid.

Apparently a transformer exploded under the 560 Mission PG&E Substation in San Francisco, knocking out part of the grid for about 24,000 people. Unfortunately, this happened in the SoMA neighborhood, otherwise known as datacenter alley where 365main, JMA Wired, ServePath, 650 Townsend, and Level3 (amongst others) have datacenters. Apparently the datacenter we moved out of, 365main, had some problems dealing with this power outage.

• Power Outages In San Francisco
• 365Main datacenter power outage
  
• At least 20,000 without power in San Francisco

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