Datacenter Exploaded!

[MJ]

The Planet's DC got blown up!

"This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost."

"We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department."

"This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock. "

"We are in the process of communicating with all affected customers. we are planning to post updates every hour via our forum and in our customer portal. Our interactive voice response system is updating customers as well. "

read more:

http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185

Its pretty scary stuff like this can happen..

 

[-REECE-]

Good Lord! Thank God I signed up with Softlayer -- was really considering hosting at The Planet!

Softlayer proudly lists on it's homepage: 3 x 2-megawatt diesel generators w/on-site fuel storage

I'm no explosives expert, but that seems like a pretty good bomb to me...

The Planet's DC got blown up!

"This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost."

"We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department."

"This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock. "

"We are in the process of communicating with all affected customers. we are planning to post updates every hour via our forum and in our customer portal. Our interactive voice response system is updating customers as well. "

read more:

http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185

Its pretty scary stuff like this can happen..

 

[michaeldotcom]

Softlayer proudly lists on it's homepage: 3 x 2-megawatt diesel generators w/on-site fuel storage
I'm no explosives expert, but that seems like a pretty good bomb to me...

Lots of Internet companies, web hosting companies, registrars, etc. do have these diesel backup generators with on site fuel storage in order to prevent powercuts in case there's a problem with electricity supply.

This is the case in the US, in the UK and most other countries.

 

[Dave_Z]

Its pretty scary stuff like this can happen..

They can and do happen. What's more important is how prepared one is.

The Planet appears ready, though the same can't necessarily be said of their
end users.

 

[DebX420]

Does anyone know of any sites that were at this server? I mean, I heard some people's sites went out because of this, just want to clearify whether or nots this is true.

 

[Dave_Z]

Does anyone know of any sites that were at this server?

One of theirs: servercommand.net.

 

[copper]

I have 3 servers at Layeredtech and was in the middle of moving
1st server to ThePlanet and this thing happen.

I considered SoftLayer, but, moved to ThePlanet
And My server is down for more than 24 hours.

 

[labrocca]

That's a LOT of sites going to be effected. Does that mean those with active sites are going to see a traffic increase? That's the bright side.

 

[weblord]

freedns.afraid.org which holds some of my blogspot hosted blogs as well for the cname hosting.

Does anyone know of any sites that were at this server? I mean, I heard some people's sites went out because of this, just want to clearify whether or nots this is true.

 

[seeker]

This is definitely scary.
If anything, WE should backup daily everything, and be prepared for a temporary solution.

 

[labrocca]

I am backed up daily and I have 2 cheap host accounts to move to in case of emergency.

Hosts want $15-$50 a month for a backup solution. You can get a dreamhost account for about $8 a month...set cron job to ftp your backup daily. If your server goes down..change DNS and you're live again fast.

I don't trust a single data center.

 

[dmi]

Latest updates: http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185

 

[barefoottech]

BFT Reseller Site sells Hosting based there ,but thankfully uses Another 2 Servers elsewhere for all his own sites (Woohoo Thanks RoyaltyHosting & HOSTGator).

What is the point of Backup Generators, firecontrol procedures if not allowed to utilise them.

Plus one of the original reasons for creation of the Internet was the de-centralisation of servers to prevent a single incident shutting down major chunks of bandwidth.

Maybe need to return to a large network of server sites rather than using these MONSTER Sheds with millions of sites

 

[whitebark]

Another reason to put your websites on more than one server.

 

[MJ]

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4481/planetblowupic5.jpg

i found this thought it was pretty funny. :lol:

 

[Adulu]

knocked down three walls , my god.

 

[Makis.TV]

thats why scriptlance.com amd statscounter.com were offline

 

[Shane]

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4481/planetblowupic5.jpg

i found this thought it was pretty funny. :lol:

That picture is a fake.. lol


I cannot believe this happened, but it shows we need fireproof servers!

 

[MJ]

yeah its fake.. the guys over at cpanel made it

 

[german2006]

If someone is going/thinking to demand them post here or PM me.