Extreme California heat knocks key Twitter data center offline
According to reports, Twitter has prohibited any significant updates to the company's product until access to the California data centre is reestablished.
Apparently, on September 5, Twitter's Sacramento data centre went offline.
On September 5, according to reports, Twitter's Sacramento data centre went offline.
A Twitter executive reportedly warned that access could be impacted by a second outage.
According to a source, a heat wave in the area recently forced Twitter's data centre in Sacramento, California, to go offline. According to an internal memo from a Twitter executive, some users may not be able to access Twitter due to a failure at another data centre. The incident, which is believed to have happened before the deadline for shareholders to vote on Elon Musk's acquisition of the service, has not yet been publicly reported by the firm.
Carrie Fernandez, vice president of engineering at Twitter, reportedly warned engineers in an internal memo that an outage at another location could prevent Twitter from serving some users after the company lost access to its Sacramento (SMF) data centre on September 5 due to extreme weather, resulting in the "total shutdown of physical equipment."
According to the memo, which mentions data centres in Atlanta and Portland that are operating, the company is reportedly operating in a "non-redundant state" as a result of the outage at the San Francisco data centre. Redundancies are multiple data centres used by large firms to ensure that their services are available to users even if one data centre is inaccessible.
Before Tuesday's deadline for Twitter shareholders to vote on Elon Musk's $44 billion (about Rs. 3,49,900 crore) buyout offer, there have been reports of an outage.
Peiter Zatko, the former head of security at Twitter, is scheduled to appear before a US Senate Committee on Tuesday to discuss his claims of lax security procedures at the firm. According to the article, Zatko had previously claimed that the service lacked adequate data redundancy, which may cause it to go offline either momentarily or permanently.
Although the company has not yet formally released information about the California data centre, a company spokesperson told CNN in a statement that there had been no disruptions to Twitter access and that the company's teams had the tools and resources necessary to deliver updates and provide a seamless experience, according to the report.
The memo, according to the report, has prevented any significant improvements to the company's product until Twitter restores access to the data centre. According to the memo, these include production adjustments that are not urgent as well as mobile platform installations and modifications.
