Power Loss For LastMinute.com
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Well our current advertising slogan is that it only takes one second without power to crash a network. Looks like Lastminute.com had more than their fair share of power troubles recently - losing almost half a day of trading due to a power loss. You can read the full story at Computer Weekly.com which covers the power outage at their Colt data centre which is so far being put down to circuit breaker problems. The resulting power loss also affected their subsidiary sites including Medhotels.com, Holidayautos.co.uk and Travelocity.co.uk. Circuit breaker discrimination is a key part of any power continuity plan and if this was a case of random tripping, the route cause could be down to a plethora of problems on site. Off course Riello UPS offers a complete power audit service and would be only too happy to investigate this further if called in to do so. The service has been used successfully by a number of clients over recent years who have come to rely on our professionalism in power protection.