As many MySQL users noticed, MySQL.com and related sites disappeared from the Internet on Wednesday 22 July 2009 for about 10 hours. I’d like to give an update on what happened and what we’ve done to fix it, as such outages are nonacceptable. For this blog entry, I’ve talked to Adam Donnison, senior MySQL.com web developer/admin. Last Wednesday certainly also highlighted the amazing power of Twitter, where we could communicate with our community in real time using our @MySQL and @MySQL_Community identities as well as our personal ones.

So what happened? For the last several years, the MySQL.com servers were being hosted in Uppsala, Sweden where MySQL AB was …