Major websites impacted by outage [2010-11-13] incl Trade Me

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myndlyz

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#71591 13-Nov-2010 09:52

hey guys, i have telecom broadband, but these sites are not working for me:

www.trademe.co.nz
www.nzpost.co.nz
www.kiwibank.co.nz

any one else having any issues?????

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#404143 13-Nov-2010 09:53

Trade Me and other sites hosted by Datacom in Wellington are currently down. I am going to post about this soon.

Psilan

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#404144 13-Nov-2010 09:54

Yeah there are a few major sites down at the moment.
Stuff went in to a login/password request before going down completely.

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myndlyz

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#404145 13-Nov-2010 09:54

freitasm: Trade Me and other sites hosted by Datacom in Wellington are currently down. I am goiing to post about this soon.

far out that was quick!! thanks for the info

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#404148 13-Nov-2010 09:59

According to some information a power cut caused problems in a datacentre running those servers.

The interesting thing here is Trade Me... That domain alone is responsible for 60% of New Zealand's internet traffic and is down.

They have two sites - AKL and WLG. Both are live, but the database itself is only live in one of the sites at a time. Today it was live in Wellington, so obviously nothing can run without the database being visible.

I always thought they had a DR plan in place. It seems it was just load balancing after all then...

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#404151 13-Nov-2010 10:08

Stuff is back (somewhat)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4342345/Power-out-in-central-Wellington

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#404153 13-Nov-2010 10:16

Trademe appears to be back up.

[Edit] ... albeit latest listings seem to be missing images ...

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#404160 13-Nov-2010 10:43

Im getting a bad gateway response from nzpost now

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#404163 13-Nov-2010 10:58

The issue is a major power outage in Wellington that has taken down large parts of the Citylink network.

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#404170 13-Nov-2010 11:15

I've got a trademe auction I won that's stuck on closing, hopefully they do a clean up of the system to sort these issues out when the network is back.