[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Back on the Air

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Back on the Air
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1212409697.shtml


   My blog hosting service was down all day yesterday. Other affected
   Powerblogs clients include The Night Writer and Bogus Gold. Powerblogs
   uses a server farm ("The Planet") in Houston who experienced a major
   fire.

     This evening at 4:55 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.

   Obviously they're back up, after about 28 hours, some of that just to
   give the air conditioning time to re-cool the rooms before restarting
   the servers.
   The best news is still that nobody was hurt.