Server Down All Afternoon & Evening

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At 3:15pm on 9-12-2005 many of our readers noticed that Legit Reviews went down. The crash was directly related to the Los Angeles power grid problems. According to CNN News worker error killed the power to half of L.A. Our web servers just happen to be located in the city of L.A. They are backed up by a diesel reserve that is capable of seamlessly supporting the IDC for 28 days. It obviously didn’t work and the diesel power generators failed and the site crashed and got corrupted. The site is back up and we are good to go!

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — About 700,000 electric customers in Los Angeles lost power Monday afternoon after a worker mistakenly cut a wrong line, triggering a cascade of problems in the city’s power grid, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said. About 50 percent of the department’s 1.4 million customers were affected by the outage, which began at about 1 p.m. (4 p.m. ET).

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