If you tried to visit Rick’s Picks yesterday between the hours of roughly noon through 11:45PM EST, you may have thought our site was down – and you would have been right. Rick’s Picks, along with well more than a thousand others, was down due to a power failure in our data center.
Much remains unknown as yet about the causes of this event, so a full post-mortem won’t be possible until at least tomorrow. But we do know this: a power failure in a class-A datacenter should never happen. Ever. More details will be posted as they become available.
We sincerely apologize for the outage, and we greatly appreciate your patience.
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Not surprising during a Mercury Retrograde period. Communications of all types can be affected. Don’t expend too much energy figuring out the cause, like the flash crash during a previous MR, it probably won’t be fully determined.
All day I felt like something was missing; kinda like I hadn’t had my morning coffee. Now I confess, I’M hooked! Don’t ever do that again… please.
Great news you’re back, Rick!
I thought you’ve been shutdown for posting my comment on ETF Tungsten…