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Retrospective on the Aug 14th VS Online outage

August 22, 2014 Aug 22, 2014 08/22/14

Brian Harry

We had a pretty serious outage last Thursday all told it was a little over 5 hours.  The symptoms were that performance was so bad that the service was basically unavailable for most people (though there was some intermittent access as various mitigation steps were taken).  It started around 14:00 UTC and ended a little before 19:30 ...