Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers

[KnacK]

"Customers hosting with ThePlanet, a major Texas hosting provider, are going through some tough times. Yesterday evening at 5:45 pm local time an electrical short caused a fire and explosion in the power room, knocking out walls and taking the entire facility offline. No-one was hurt and no servers were damaged. Estimates suggest 9,000 servers are offline, affecting 7,500 customers, with ETAs for repair of at least 24 hours from onset. While they claim redundant power, because of the nature of the problem they had to go completely dark. This goes to show that no matter how much planning you do, Murphy's Law still applies."


http://forums.theplanet.com.nyud.net:8080/index.php?showtopic=90185&pid=592269&st=0

[jitspoe]

Man, that blows (up).  Glad this server is still up.

* jitspoe runs some backups.  NOW.

[sk89q]

This is why I moved to CalPop.




...Just kidding.

(If you're not familiar with CalPop: they're really cheap, but you're really getting what you pay for. They once lost our server in their data center for a week or two.)

[Zorchenhimer]

* jitspoe runs some backups.  NOW.

Yea, I hit a few db connection errors.  Knew something was up. 

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[Eiii]

The explosions knocked down three walls, apparently. Big.