WTF is wrong with steam?

[Threash]

Has anyone else been having connection issues lately? it seems like everytime i try to play something steam is down.

[tgr]

It's been down for at least a few hours here, it seems.

[Mrbloodworth]

I have been having issues with syncing, connecting to friends games, and all sorts of shit for days now. I thought it was just me, its not.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=784745

[Mrbloodworth]

Update: Our data center's uninterruptible power supplies experienced a power failure. The power is back on now and we're working to get service restored as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

 

[Kageru]

Ah.... technology.

[tgr]

Yeah, a friend of mine (who, incidentally, takes every opportunity to whine about how they've structured everything wrong whenever there's even a hint of a problem, when he's more a developer than a sysadmin) did not see that as a joke on their part. "well, that's a dumbass name!" etc.

I just saw that, smirked, and actually thought higher of them because they don't seem to be taking themselves so seriously they can't flip a joke (albeit maybe a dry one) when shit does go a bit tits up.

[Yegolev]

I've lived through data center power outages and I can see that being serious, if oddly worded.

[Paelos]

I ran into problems yesterday, but it seemed fine last night.

[Mrbloodworth]

Like i have said, I have been having issues, like friends list not populating, but then seeing them log into a game. For about a month now. I think this power outage is just the most noticeable issue.

[Ingmar]

Yeah, a friend of mine (who, incidentally, takes every opportunity to whine about how they've structured everything wrong whenever there's even a hint of a problem, when he's more a developer than a sysadmin) did not see that as a joke on their part. "well, that's a dumbass name!" etc.

I just saw that, smirked, and actually thought higher of them because they don't seem to be taking themselves so seriously they can't flip a joke (albeit maybe a dry one) when shit does go a bit tits up.

Well, they are actually called that. That's what the U in UPS stands for. So, may not have been a joke. Also if your datacenter UPS goes out, that is some serious shit right there. That stuff is supposed to be bulletproof.

[Mrbloodworth]

Need a UPS  for your UPS!

[tgr]

I know they're called that, I'm just used to people just saying "the UPS", so I figured it was just their way of making it into a tiny joke.

[Ingmar]

Need a UPS  for your UPS!

Typically you do have this, in the form of a diesel generator (or some other emergency power source) that kicks in if the UPS system loses grid power. What it sounds like is that their actual UPS installation totally failed, which is kind of scary because if they're doing it right there should be enough capacity/redundancy to make failures like that vanishingly unlikely.

[Chimpy]

Probably a transfer switch failure when grid power was lost. If the transfer switch fails you are stuck on batteries until they run out.

[fuser]

Probably a transfer switch failure when grid power was lost. If the transfer switch fails you are stuck on batteries until they run out.

Generators could of also ran out of fuel

[Ingmar]

Or rats ate the generator cables, that happened to us. (Luckily spotted before we needed to go to generator.)

[pants]

I'm sure theres a yo dawg meme waiting to be produced here.

[Rendakor]

Generators could of also ran out of fuel

could have

[Sheepherder]

Mynocks.  Probably chewing on the power cables.

 

[Ingmar]

Nobody laughed when I made that joke at the time. 

[Paelos]

Steam just dropped me and won't restart. WTF?

[Soulflame]

Generators could of also ran out of fuel

could have

Thank you.

[Der Helm]

Generators could of also ran out of fuel

could have

Thank you.