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Rackspace’s Dallas-Fort Worth facility had “power issues” with its SSL server, bringing sites hosted by its network of cloud servers crashing back to earth. The company also acknowledged a separate power issue affecting the data centre at large. Rackspace acknowledged the problem both on its Twitter account as well as on its status blog. Sometime Monday afternoon Central Time, part of one of Rackspace’s nine data centres suffered a power outage, and then was brought back online around 5:30 PM Central Time. Until about 8:58 PM Central Time, that portion of the data centre, in Dallas-Fort Worth, was transitioning between generator and utility power, Rackspace said on its official blog.

The outages also affected the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) cluster hosted by Rackspace, apparently making e-commerce and other functions that depend on SSL inoperable for Rackspace-hosted sites. That cluster went down Monday afternoon and was restored at 5:03 PM, went down again at 6:11 PM CDT, was restored at 7:01 PM, and then apparently flickered at about 9:48 PM CDT, after which service was restored, the company said on a separate status blog.

Source: PC Mag

Micro-blogging service Twitter was abuzz with tweets following a hotly disputed weekend presidential election in Iran, causing NTT America, which provides hosting for Twitter, to delay a critical network upgrade because of Twitter’s important role in bypassing the government’s attempts to silence traditional news reports.

The originally scheduled for Monday evening to make space for traffic increases over the past few months, Twitter requested the network capacity upgrade more than 7,000 miles away from the election at its San Jose facility to be delayed. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a blog post that NTT readily cooperated, having recognized Twitter’s important role in Iran at that time. It postponed the upgrade until Tuesday afternoon.

Source: The WHIR