Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers 431
An anonymous reader writes "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." Here's a Coral CDN link to ThePlanet's forum where staff are posting updates on the outage. At this writing almost 2,400 people are trying to read it.
9 Volts of Love (Score:5, Funny)
explosion? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:9 Volts of Love (Score:3, Funny)
trying to read it (Score:5, Funny)
Recovery costs (Score:5, Funny)
This is BAD KARMA!! (Score:5, Funny)
What does a server room (Score:2, Funny)
Kevin Hazard? (Score:3, Funny)
Helpful Slashdot! (Score:5, Funny)
and as of this posting, make that 152,476.
kaboom (Score:2, Funny)
Re:explosion? (Score:5, Funny)
The Planet explodes (Score:1, Funny)
Re:trying to read it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:trying to read it (Score:2, Funny)
No servers were damaged (Score:4, Funny)
It must have been HACKERS (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Knocking down three walls... (Score:3, Funny)
Monty Python (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Kudo to their support team (Score:4, Funny)
Re:a bit wrong (Score:2, Funny)
Printer ignition source (Score:5, Funny)
lp0 printer on fire!
Re:explosion? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:More planning could have prevented this (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Recovery costs (Score:3, Funny)
Dollys - $500, Truck rentals - $5000, Labour - $10000, Sending internets on trucks - Priceless
Re:Kudo to their support team (Score:2, Funny)
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Sadists! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:explosion? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Kudo to their support team (Score:3, Funny)
"Hello, this is the Planet, our servers are down for the moment but we're working on it, thank you for your comprehension... Oh no, Smith is on fire ! Someone get him !!! *click*"