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PLoS sites temporarily down - get your updates here (UPDATED)

By clock on April 9, 2009.

The Bay Area experienced telecoms trauma overnight. Rumors of main switch outages, fiber optic cables being cut and telephone coverage being suspended, abound. We hear that the fiber optic cable is the most likely culprit. We're trying to figure out how long it might take for these big picture issues to get fixed (could be as little as one hour) and at the same time we're planning on possibly providing another solution via Amazon EC2. Our IT team have been working on the situation since 4.00am.

All the sites that are co-located with United Layer (who are in the Bay Area) are affected, only PLoS Biology is currently working. We advise our users, fans and authors to visit PubMed Central in the meantime.

We'll be using PLoS Twitter (also Pete Binfield's and mine), this Facebook page, our FriendFeed room, and everyONE blog to keep you updated. Plus, I will use A Blog Around the Clock for those of you who prefer that route.

Update: We're back!

Good news, our sites are now live again. Our co-location company, United Layer, have found a work around to the server outages caused by the vandalism of AT&T Fiber Optic Cable lines in the Northern California region.

We have mirror sites that contain all articles on all sites published on or before 17th March 2009 ready to go live on Amazon EC2 should we experience more difficulties. Alternatively, you could use PubMed Central for a complete archive of current content.

We'll continue to use this site for further updates should we need to, but we have our fingers crossed that the worst is behind us.

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Parts of Northern California experienced telecoms trauma overnight and many sites are down, from many companies (not just PLoS sites).

Oh...that's what happened. I got home from the airport today and checked the blog, that traffic to an old post of mine about UCSC Genome Browser mirrors had ginormous traffic. Had no idea why.

Now I get it. They still seem down, though...