Yikes… transformer fires = !good
June 4th, 2008
Just want to issue a quick apology for unavailability of the site over the past few days, apparently someone out there has had a rougher time than me due to a transformer catching fire in a data center where 3 of my sites are hosted.
Check this out…
Network outage affecting several servers
Posted May 31 at 18:22 CDT by Richard Cooper in Downtime - 0 comment(s)
Issues at one of our data center are causing downtime on several servers. We are working to resolve this problem as soon as possible.
Update: Today at approximately 5:45 p.m. CDT, a transformer in one of The Planet’s Huston datacentres caught fire, requiring them to take down all of the generators on site on the instructions of the fire department. This is one of six data-centres used by WebFaction. All servers hosted at that datacentre are currently offline.
The difference between Webfaction having issues and a Fasthosts cock up is that I still trust Webfaction and know they didn’t hand out my passwords or some stupid shit like Fasthosts would do.
I just hope the poor souls that had to deal with it are getting a week off after a week of no sleep.
Anyway… that’s the why the site has been down, please excuse me if the site is a little wobbly over the next few days but I hope that is now service resumed.