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Mt. Gox emergency maintenance despite "market cool down" halt

• mckoss 14y ago
  They implied they might take some servers down to add more to their cluster.
  • dfc 14y ago
    How can someone "imply" an emergency maintenance? That would make it a planned maintenance. The servers were supposed to be operational so that people could change/place orders before trading resumes.
    • commentzorro 14y ago
      It's like "emergency surgery." Your doctor can say, "We're scheduling you for emergency surgery in two days or that aneurism could burst and kill you. In the mean time don't so anything stressful." So the emergency maintenance is maintenance that, if put off, could result in the complete collapse of the system so better to do it right away and have an annoying but hopefully brief impact.
• deleted 14y ago
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• mcantelon 14y ago
  Great how they have nothing on their home page to indicate this.
  • wmf 14y ago
    That's because the emergency maintenance is now over. This is one reason why I am opposed to posting short outages to HN; they tend to be over before the story falls off the front page.
    • mcantelon 14y ago
      During the emergency maintenance the homepage had no status info. The price at the top of the homepage was the last price before trading stopped.