Web Server Incident Report – August 2, 2012

The short description: The server backups took longer than expected and as the web traffic started to grow the server got overloaded and crashed. TIMELINE for Thursday, August 2nd, 2012, 10:15-19:20 10:15 The first internal monitoring alert arrived 10:17 First customer e-mail arrived 10:18 First attempt to log in to the server 10:18 Acknowledged the...

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