Jonbo298
join:2004-01-12
Council Bluffs, IA
1 edit | Howardforums.com also
But not completely. Disrupted any images hosted on the site. (caused it to be egads slow). |
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sansri88
Go digtal you analog laggards
Premium
join:2005-12-17
New York, NY
clubs:  | Proboards affected too
Somewhere around 27 Proboards servers are affected by this as well. |
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frankenfeet
Premium
join:2001-10-14
Smiths Grove, KY | VCD Quality as well.
Just checked out VCDQ and it's down too. |
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Nsane_iceman
Workaholic
Premium
join:2001-02-26
North Richland Hills, TX
clubs:
| said by frankenfeet  :Just checked out VCDQ and it's down too. Wow, sucks.
I also have a MPLS issue in Houston.
The internet ends in Houston? |
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ross
join:2000-08-16 | digizip.com is also down
Digizip's servers are hosted in Texas and are also down due to power outage. |
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joako
Premium
join:2000-09-07
/dev/null | Good. They don't deserve to be online. |
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pokesph
It Is Almost Fast
Premium
join:2001-06-25
Sacramento, CA
clubs: |  The Planet
Nice to know that, as a The Planet customer, I have to read / learn about this major outage issue from DSLR.
Thanks guys! |
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phattieg
join:2001-04-29
Winter Park, FL
 ·Verizon Wireless B..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
1 edit | Well, I'll be honest about it. If I ran a company, I would be more concerned about damage control than telling you, the customer, what is going on. I mean think about it, a FIRE occured, the first thing on the owners mind was "whats down, whats up, who should I call, how many people are affected, what can we do to get back up ASAP before people sue". So before you get upset that DSLR "reported" it before the company did, you have to think, the company has to prepare a press release about how the fire got started, what they've done to make sure there is a backup in place if it happens again, etc, etc, and it all has to be worded in a long winded, lawyer friendly fashion. So I can safely say I am grateful it didn't cause the affected customers downtime resulting in days, and I happened to used quite a few of the affected sites myself within the last 24 and 48 hours reprogramming my old Verizon post paid phone to a pre-paid using QPST and the help of howardforums.com. Thanks to them, ironically, the internet on my cell phone started working properly after I seen a screen shot in the "how to" section, and found the hex code for the internet service in the actual shot that was hosted by this provider. So kudos to them for damage control and getting the site back up before I noticed it was down! 
EDIT: I am actually posting this message on my PC using the same cell phone I was programming because ironically the speeds are faster than the apartments owned cable internet service. I get about 300 kpbs more download, and about 40 kbps faster upload. And although Verizon's prepaid plans suck for prices (99 cent a day to use it for that day, 10 cent a min, 10 cent per text, unlimited mobile web for 99 cent a day, thats what made me do it.). Besides, my Sprint Moto Q just died, and I have to save up for a replacement, so I am using the prepaid till I get my Mogul. |
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iv81
@mindspring.com
| this is obviosly due to power grid modifications performed
This is obviosly due to power grid modifications performed recently to reduce power consumption with installed air conditioners, read the article here »www.thehostingnews.com/news-dedi···306.html |
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Gerard780
Premium
join:2002-01-25
Simpsonville, KY | reply to frankenfeet
Re: VCD Quality as well.
Of all the thousands of sites down I'm surprised someone mentioned mine.. I'm honored..
-Gerard |
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leibold
Premium,MVM
join:2002-07-09
Sunnyvale, CA
clubs:
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Re: this is obviosly due to power grid modifications performed
That article doesn't really mention anything about changing the power grid, it does talk about improvements to the cooling of the datacenters and associated energy savings.
Reducing the power consumption shouldn't cause a transformer explosion, on the contrary it should make it less likely.
The only item in the article that raised a warning sign in my mind was when they mention "Sealed power distribution units to reduce bypass airflow" since the PDUs need cooling too.
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Markcausa
@sbcglobal.net
| What a crazy couple of days...
I have hosted with The Planet for about 3 years and run a hosting company.
Within two hours of the outage, we had new servers provisioned in their Dallas data center using their Automated Provisioning system.
It has been a very long night, but their provisioning system saved my company tonight. |
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Defiance82
Computer Elite
Premium
join:2002-09-11
Reeds Spring, MO
clubs:
 ·Suddenlink
| sucks
This outage is going onto 24 hours almost. The Planet continues to not get an ETA which is very unprofessional IMO. I have 3 servers with them that are currently down due to this.
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nightwalker
Nightwalker
join:1999-08-07
Appleton, WI
2 edits | cover story or something fishy at theplanet.
I just chatted with a buddy who was onsite during the supposedly 'electrical' fire, and said everything was business as normal.
Chat Log:
[Sunday June 01 2008 - 14:48:47] the whole thing with TP
[Sunday June 01 2008 - 14:48:51] is really fishy
[Sunday June 01 2008 - 14:49:12] i was there last night
[Sunday June 01 2008 - 14:49:17] and there was no trucks
[Sunday June 01 2008 - 14:49:21] no nothing
[Sunday June 01 2008 - 14:49:30] no electricians
[Sunday June 01 2008 - 14:49:58] so either they renamed the spring tx location tohouston 1
[Sunday June 01 2008 - 14:50:03] or nothing happened
[Sunday June 01 2008 - 14:55:07] the msg from Doug came at 11PM
[Sunday June 01 2008 - 14:55:18] i was there at 2 AM and everything was fine
[Sunday June 01 2008 - 14:55:23] and stuff is still not back.
He thinks there might have been a search warrant for servers, and they are using an electrical outage as a 'cover' story to hide the real truth of what happened.
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deaninnc
@rr.com
| I dont know if people realize how much of an outage this is causing. There are hundreds of thousands of sites if not more down because of this.
I have no idea about the fire being a cover. All I know is there are people losing a ton of money every minute and I imagine their will be lawsuits and lots of lost business.
Lets not forget a lot of DNS runs through theplanet.com also.
I am interested to hear more details. I cannot get to the page with the status as I assume it is getting a lot of hits.
Dean |
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wvcaver
Premium
join:2005-04-17
Millersburg, OH | wonder if this is why tigerdirect.com is down ? |
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lujohnson
N 0 E Q P
join:2002-08-08
Agoura Hills, CA
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
|  Ripples
A website I have share-hosted at 3ix went down for over 2 hours yesterday, beginning at around 11:45 AM PDT. A traceroute shows that it's now being hosted at Hostdime in Orlando FL. I'm not sure if 3ix normally hosts from there or not. They only refer to their Texas data centers on their website. Maybe they transferred some hosting? maybe unrelated?
I probably wouldn't have caught the outage on my site, except that I happened to be running a trial of host-tracker.com monitoring... funny thing is, as of now, THEIR website is down too!
ripples.... |
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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| reply to pokesph
Re: The Planet
said by pokesph :Nice to know that, as a The Planet customer, I have to read / learn about this major outage issue from DSLR. Thanks guys! Maybe you could check in the System and Network Status forum at ThePlanet, and in particular this thread. |
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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN | reply to wvcaver
Re: cover story or something fishy at theplanet.
TigerDirect routes to servers down in Miami that appear to be part of Internap. Unless they quickly switched over, I think it's probably just a coincidence. |
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ross
join:2000-08-16 | reply to joako
Re: digizip.com is also down
said by joako :Good. They don't deserve to be online. ? |
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