Half my public infrastructure is down. It could have been a 100%, but I separated private and business systems last month. Lots of people use MT because their email and DNS logic is solid. So this is pretty serious for them. Media Temple was broken into a while back via a Wordpress bug and people wonder if this is related to that event (HN really needs a "related news" button).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2462774
MT also did a hardware upgrade yesterday. So they are probably a little stressed right now.
http://status.mediatemple.net/
I mean, seriously, I'm not trying to be an arse about it or something, but why should the hacker population at large give a damn that "some customers [of MediaTemple] will see interruptions to Web, Mail, and FTP services".
Is it that essential a host? Is everyone here hosting something there? I mean, I'm sure it's a popular host and everything, but should there be a post every time some hosting service gets a bit of a hiccup? If so, we might as well rename this site "Hosting status news".
I don't think posting on HN re: hosts going down is necessary per se, but as a means of keeping tabs on hosting companies, a post like this is helpful.
When I was looking for a hosting company a few years back, I went with Media Temple as a hosting company based on the praise given to it by a number of people whose opinions I respected. I had an absolutely terrible time with them, switched over to Linode last Friday, and am thrilled that I no longer have to deal with Media Temple. If I'd seen more critical / dissatisfied posts about them before I signed on with them, I could have saved myself a lot of frustration.
I think it's interesting that their _entire_ DNS seems to have gone down. Seems like a pretty big failure of architecture, and given the size of prevalence of Media Temple a topic for HN.
MT also did a hardware upgrade yesterday. So they are probably a little stressed right now. http://status.mediatemple.net/