He had a legitimate excuse for ruining my E-Life this past weekend 
Evidently, it was a power outage, and not a sinister plot to unravel the social lives of millions, that knocked MySpace out of commission over the weekend.
On Saturday and Sunday, users attempting to log on to the enormously popular social-networking Web site — now boasting nearly 96 million members — found only an apologetic message, along with a link to a Pacman game to keep them entertained. The site was completely offline for two periods over the weekend, according to The Associated Press, and member profiles were inaccessible for most of Saturday and Sunday.
"We are in the process of fixing it right now, so sit tight. Hopefully we'll be back online within the hour," the message read. Variations on that message appeared throughout the weekend.
A MySpace representative attributed the outage to power failures resulting from the heat wave that has gripped California in recent days.
"Due to the record-breaking heat in Los Angeles over the weekend, the area where MySpace's servers are stored had massive power outages and the backup generators failed," the representative told MTV News on Monday. "With power resumed, the network is now up and running." However, access remained spotty at press time.
Tom Anderson, president and co-founder of the site, posted a message Sunday: "Hello everyone — so there was a power outage in LA yesterday. unfortunately it directly hit the data center where myspace's servers are located. lots of people were affected. the backup power failed and that's why myspace has been screwy since yesterday afternoon. we are still working to get everything back in order. i know what most of the problems are, it's just going to take awhile to fix them. thx for your patience!"
Problems remained on Monday, not least of them issues with profile pages. Anderson weighed in again, saying, "hey folks, some of you will be missing parts of your profile page. dont worry, we will fix it."
The far-reaching consequences of the disruption was commented upon by a user named Zap, who spoke with MTV News on Sunday. "It's kind of like if [AOL Instant Messenger] went down for two days, everyone would be affected," Zap wrote in an e-mail message. "I know of people who advertise and use MySpace to attract people to nightclubs and stuff. The shortage messed everything up. MySpace is addicting as we all know. And it totally messed up my page."
— Farrah Weinstein
Evidently, it was a power outage, and not a sinister plot to unravel the social lives of millions, that knocked MySpace out of commission over the weekend.
On Saturday and Sunday, users attempting to log on to the enormously popular social-networking Web site — now boasting nearly 96 million members — found only an apologetic message, along with a link to a Pacman game to keep them entertained. The site was completely offline for two periods over the weekend, according to The Associated Press, and member profiles were inaccessible for most of Saturday and Sunday.
"We are in the process of fixing it right now, so sit tight. Hopefully we'll be back online within the hour," the message read. Variations on that message appeared throughout the weekend.
A MySpace representative attributed the outage to power failures resulting from the heat wave that has gripped California in recent days.
"Due to the record-breaking heat in Los Angeles over the weekend, the area where MySpace's servers are stored had massive power outages and the backup generators failed," the representative told MTV News on Monday. "With power resumed, the network is now up and running." However, access remained spotty at press time.
Tom Anderson, president and co-founder of the site, posted a message Sunday: "Hello everyone — so there was a power outage in LA yesterday. unfortunately it directly hit the data center where myspace's servers are located. lots of people were affected. the backup power failed and that's why myspace has been screwy since yesterday afternoon. we are still working to get everything back in order. i know what most of the problems are, it's just going to take awhile to fix them. thx for your patience!"
Problems remained on Monday, not least of them issues with profile pages. Anderson weighed in again, saying, "hey folks, some of you will be missing parts of your profile page. dont worry, we will fix it."
The far-reaching consequences of the disruption was commented upon by a user named Zap, who spoke with MTV News on Sunday. "It's kind of like if [AOL Instant Messenger] went down for two days, everyone would be affected," Zap wrote in an e-mail message. "I know of people who advertise and use MySpace to attract people to nightclubs and stuff. The shortage messed everything up. MySpace is addicting as we all know. And it totally messed up my page."
— Farrah Weinstein
