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FA Discussion => Support => Topic started by: Lithium on June 02, 2008, 02:55:47 pm

Title: Explosion at Datacenter
Post by: Lithium on June 02, 2008, 02:55:47 pm: The downtime was due to problems at the datacenter.

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This evening (May 31st) 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.
Title: Re: Explosion at Datacenter
Post by: NoCry on June 02, 2008, 03:25:45 pm: wondered what had happened.
Title: Re: Explosion at Datacenter
Post by: Anamodiel on June 02, 2008, 03:41:56 pm: Oh, wow. Haha, who would have thought that there could have actually been an explosion?

I was wondering what had happened as well; I felt really disconnected.
Title: Explosion at Datacenter
Post by: Broin on June 02, 2008, 07:37:52 pm: Teamspeak being down related to this?
Title: Explosion at Datacenter
Post by: Fuse on June 02, 2008, 08:31:20 pm: Quote from: "Broin"
Teamspeak being down related to this?

Until FA's is back up, I'll keep mine up.

lostlocalhost.com:8999
Title: Explosion at Datacenter
Post by: Lithium on June 03, 2008, 12:10:51 am: Quote from: "Fuse"
Quote from: "Broin"
Teamspeak being down related to this?

Until FA's is back up, I'll keep mine up.

lostlocalhost.com:8999

Thanks man. The datacenter is experiencing intermediate outages which are knocking out TS. I will do my best to keep it up. Thank you.
Title: Explosion at Datacenter
Post by: Adad on June 03, 2008, 01:26:09 am: TS is back up fyi
Title: Explosion at Datacenter
Post by: Lithium on June 03, 2008, 06:59:04 pm: Yeah a backup generator they had went bad causing the latest down time.

If it interests you more on the explosion and generator status can be found here: http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185

Sorry again guys, this is a pretty major thing.
Title: Explosion at Datacenter
Post by: Tecknik on June 03, 2008, 11:38:26 pm: I found out that a local forum I frequent (southfloridaracing.com) uses the same hosting company.

I thought it was weird when both my top forums went down at the same time. Haha.
Title: Explosion at Datacenter
Post by: Lithium on June 04, 2008, 12:14:33 am: Quote from: "Tecknik"
hosting company.

They are more like a server hosting company, but close :)
Title: Explosion at Datacenter
Post by: Tbone on June 04, 2008, 01:18:30 pm: I see we're finally back up. I'm in Missouri with internet until the 10th.