The ab|inventio Gazette

One of our early investors was happy enough with what we are doing that he sextupled his investment in the abInventio fund. Thanks!

As Yahoo’s Santa Monica offices dealt with an hour-long power outage and cell phones turned useless all day across Southern California, abInventio’s websites remained fully operational through the 5.4-magnitude earthquake. None of our data centers serving Whozat, HoundWire, REPcloud and QLess in Altadena, Santa Monica or Texas were affected. Indeed, HoundWire was among the first news organizations to report the earthquake, within a half hour of the event.

–Alex

HoundWire suffered the first outage in its history tonight. At 8:14 PM, our Ops team detected the service was down. A rapid diagnosis process ensued. Power: operational. Servers: operational. Routers: operational. Internet connectivity: Down. The problem: a hound had inflicted multiple bite wounds to a cable. It is perhaps fitting that if HoundWire went down, it did so due to the work of a hound. The cable was quickly replaced, the hound properly disciplined and banned from the premises, and HoundWire went back into operation at 9:30 PM.

–Alex