A fire at The Planet’s H1 data center in Houston, Texas on Saturday has taken out thousands of websites.- - - - - - - - -
In messages posted on the web hosting firm’s forum, the company blamed a faulty transformer for the fire. No servers or networking equipment were damaged, but the data centre remains without power, after The Planet shut down all generators “as instructed by the fire department.
About 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers are affected by the outage. B3ta.com, a popular British comedy site, is a high profile casualty.
The Planet is posting hourly updates on its forum. It has five other data centers, which remain up and running.
So it looks likely that no conspiracy was involved this time.
Many thanks to yokel for being an alert reader.
2 comments:
Yep. Several other sites I frequent and one of my game servers are offline because of this fire.
True, my blog stats are hosted on Planet Data Ctr, and as of this moment only SOME of their capacity has returned
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