SUP: "We also do not quite understand what is happening there"

One of the few sensible materials about what is happening with LJ was written in RIA "Novosti".

"... The problem occurred in California (where the physical server is located with data). The information that came from them suggests that the problem is related to a power failure," said Nikolai Danilov, the chief editor of Sup.

Thus, Danilov denied reports of a number of media outlets that on Saturday spread information about the disconnection of only the Russian LiveJournal segment.
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"Now the livejournal is unstable: it does not work at all, then some of it suddenly starts working," he added.

According to the agency interlocutor, failures occurred in the data center of the American company Six Apart, which owns LiveJournal. However, he noted that he does not yet have accurate information about the causes of the failure.

“We also do not quite understand what is happening there,” said Danilov.

In turn, the marketing director of the Soup company, Ivan Zassoursky, told RIA Novosti that the day before on the main page of the LiveJournal was posted information about the planned work on setting up servers. Zasursky did not rule out that this was what led to the suspension of the service.

At the same time, the news section of the Six Apart company, hosted in LiveJournal (this section is one of the functioning ones), contains an entry dated November 3. In it - a warning about the conduct of "repair work on one of the two power sources" from 22.00 to midnight of the same day.

“During the behavior of these jobs, the performance of LiveJournal may deteriorate,” the site says.

A spokeswoman for Six Apart, a San Francisco-based company, told RIA Novosti by telephone that the reasons for the failures are now being investigated. Now in San Francisco earlier in the morning.

Telephones in the European and Japanese offices of the company are not responding.