Kinda fun to see the increase in AMS-IX traffic: <a href="https://ams-ix.net/technical/statistics" rel="nofollow">https://ams-ix.net/technical/statistics</a><p>Keep in mind this is only one of the many DE-CIX datacenters, they exist in at least 8 datacenters in Frankfurt: <a href="https://twitter.com/goebelmeier/status/983453047543214081" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/goebelmeier/status/983453047543214081</a><p>Only those peers who are single-homed to Interxion FRA5 / DE-CIX6 will have experienced an outage.
Imagine it being 8pm, you sit in a operating room of germanys largest internet knot with up to 6,027 Tbit/s throughput and then the power goes down.<p>I am concerned that this even happened in a place important like this.<p>pic related: <a href="http://img.pr0gramm.com/2018/04/09/9286baa4b2261184.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img.pr0gramm.com/2018/04/09/9286baa4b2261184.jpg</a><p>The article states internet was down for users at around 10pm (I expirenced it live). So they might have been on generators for two hours (speculation).<p>Shouldn't we decentralize more?
We were hit by this.<p>In fact, we're hit by this again, down again at 22:09:19 EST for me and still down. Their website is broken too (<a href="https://www.de-cix.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.de-cix.net/</a>) and their email servers are offline which makes contacting them amusing.<p>Not much to be done, really, fortunately the impact for us is very trivial.
General home connectivity also suffered, at least a few people (and myself) had connectivity issues, if you search for @vodafone_de on twitter you'll see a lot of people complaining (though I assume it was not just vodafone with issues)