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.
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[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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| 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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wvcaverPremium
join:2005-04-17
Millersburg, OH | wonder if this is why tigerdirect.com is down ? |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5 | 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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My first thought is an electronic terrorist attack. How would a fire in any way disable a datacenter unless they had the suppression systems turned off in the whole building? I agree. Fishy.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Perhaps the boys in blue forced everyone out, then the boys in red came with fire hoses (with water  ). |
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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:16 | reply to FastiBook
Transformer exploded with enough force to take out three of the electrical room's walls. Fire department wouldn't let them turn on their backup generators. Fire suppression systems are designed to limit damage, not keep you running even though your datacentre is on fire. |
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kruserPremium
join:2002-06-01
Chesterfield, MO
1 edit | said by Guspaz:Transformer exploded with enough force to take out three of the electrical room's walls. Fire department wouldn't let them turn on their backup generators. Fire suppression systems are designed to limit damage, not keep you running even though your datacentre is on fire. I've seen a lot of backup generator installs and many have the transfer switch(s) located very near the transformer vault.
Generally this is fine but in this case I'd imagine the fact that the walls blew several feet also caused the power cables and transfer switches to move as well causing an unsafe condition.
I've seen transformer room explosions both on the primary and secondary side and they tend to be extremely powerful 
edit: The CEO has a voice message explaining that the transfer switch did fail as a result of the explosion. »service-update.theplanet.com/ |
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