Database deletion downed Digital Ocean last week

Ouch: last week, Digital Ocean took the GitLab fat-finger pill, deleting a production database and triggering a five-hour outage. Unlike GitLab's disaster, the Digital Ocean “engineer-driven configuration error” didn't include a backup failure. In its apology for the “unacceptable” turn of events, Digital Ocean explains that …

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From what I experienced is that the admin area was down and the area we US West Coast only so I do not thing that the UK as effected in terms of up time.