Myspace.com having p roblems?

Question

Is myspace.com having problems. I have tried to sign in many of times and the web site won't let me. It does some of the time and other's it just is like a blank. Anyone else having this problem?

Answer 1

The power outage that knocked MySpace offline was the second major failure in the past year at the telecom building in Los Angeles where MySpace houses much of its operations. The downtime at the Garland Building (1200 W. 7th) left MySpace users wondering how one of the web's busiest sites could go dark so easily. Adding to the headscratching was the fact that MySpace is a customer of Limelight Networks, a content delivery network that should (in theory) provide distributed caching and storage.

Other tenants at the Garland Building that were affected included DreamHost, which reported on the weekend power outages on its company blogs. The building lost grid power during a series of rolling blackouts that affected the Los Angeles area as California coped with stifling heat and record demand for electricity. The loss of power at Garland was blamed on the failure of a UPS system (uninterruptible power supply), which normally maintains power to equipment while generators start up.

Equinix said that reports that the outage may have occurred in one of its data centers were incorrect. "Equinix’s data centers were operating as normal over the weekend and this morning, providing consistent power to all customers," Margie Backaus, chief business officer of Equinix, reported in the comments section at GigaOm. "MySpace operates in Equinix data centers, but it also hosts operations in other data centers where we understand the incident occurred." MySpace recently announced that it would lease space in the new Equinix center in El Segundo.

The Garland Building suffered a prolonged power outage on Sept. 12-13 2005. The downtime was documented in a follow-up report to customers by Media Temple, another hosting tenant. The building lost grid power when a Los Angeles Power and Water Department (PWD) employee accidentally cut a power line, leaving 2 million customers in the dark. The Garland Building is equipped with five generators, but when two of them failed, the remaining three began shedding load and the facility lost power.

Some hosting tenants at 1200 W. 7th note that the building has infrastructure that would seem to make such outages unlikely. "The building power is supplied by two separate grids from the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power," colo provider IX2 Networks notes on its web site. "Unlike most buildings in downtown Los Angeles, this two-grid system gives the Garland Building a distinct advantage with the ability to switch to an alternate grid in the event one fails. The primary feed to the building is a preferred service that receives priority over all other grids in the event of an emergency."

Answer 2

Ya there was a power outage in california and tom said it may take up to a week or two to fix all the things b/c some things where lost so it's gonna take some time to retreive them all

Answer 3

From what I understand it's ran on Coldfusion and 1 server for all those people. I'm not sure but at least one or both of those things are the problem.

Try tagworld.com

Answer 4

Yes its been happening alot lately. I think its because myspace just has sooo many users that it just doesnt function properly.

Answer 5

myspace is always having problems i canceled three accounts already with myspace cause it's full of problems and lags a lot

Answer 6

Yes, it kept telling me the server was busy.

Answer 7

there was a power outage in Santa Monica....that's where the main office is located.

Answer 8

Too many people on the server/

Answer 9

yea.. itx a power outage thing. itx been so hott around l.a. lately i think their sytems crashed. they're trying to get it back up though.. shouldn be long.

Answer 10

yea im having that prob 2