2 Consecutive days of electric glitch

For frequent readers of this blog, you know that when I write in English, it means either I am in trouble or in a hurry. This time is the second case.

This is the second day of electric glitch at company. Yesterday morning when I came back to office after vacation, nearly all servers were reset at 7 a.m., confirmed by HK Light by a electric glitch at their side. This could havecaused panic but the good thing was that all backups had finished last Saturday morning and there was still enough time to start all necessary software processes again before trade openning.

Today afternoon was a bit worse. At 4:04 p.m. there were thunder strikes and the Futures trading had been disrupted before the 4:15 p.m. closing. A series of checkup, cleanup and restore operation had to be done. I started going home at 7:30 p.m., not bad.

We should have been protected by UPS but somehow the expected behaviour have not been delivered. Of course if the problem lies in neutral line pickup during thunder storm, we cannot do much. We have called the vendor to have detailed check for the UPS units this Friday. I can only pray that there will be less thunder strike and HK Light can do their job properly to minimize glitches.