Techie yanked some cables and took Cloudflare’s dashboard and API down for four hours

Single point of failure, imprecise instructions and un-labelled cables are a bad, bad, mix

Cloudflare has admitted that a four-and-a-bit-hour outage today was caused by someone pulling out cables that should have been left in place, but which were yanked because techies were given unhelpfully imprecise instructions.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Networks
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