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Offline Lithium

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Explosion at Datacenter
« 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.
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Re: Explosion at Datacenter
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2008, 03:25:45 pm »
wondered what had happened.
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Re: Explosion at Datacenter
« Reply #2 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.
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« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2008, 07:37:52 pm »
Teamspeak being down related to this?
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« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2008, 08:31:20 pm »
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Teamspeak being down related to this?


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

lostlocalhost.com:8999
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« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2008, 12:10:51 am »
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Teamspeak being down related to this?


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

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Thanks man. The datacenter is experiencing intermediate outages which are knocking out TS. I will do my best to keep it up. Thank you.
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« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2008, 01:26:09 am »
TS is back up fyi
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« Reply #7 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.
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« Reply #8 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.
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« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2008, 12:14:33 am »
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hosting company.


They are more like a server hosting company, but close :)
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« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2008, 01:18:30 pm »
I see we're finally back up. I'm in Missouri with internet until the 10th.
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