Hey folks, sorry for being offline for most of this past weekend. Our host provider, The Planet.com, had a slight problem this past weekend. I’ll use the words from Kevin Hazard of the Planet to describe what happened:

This evening at 4:55pm CDT 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.

Ouch! This impacted roughly 9000 servers and 7500 customers.. further OUCH. In any event, we’re back online now and things appear to be running somewhat smoothly. Having worked for a company that had major datacenters also, I can totally emphasize with what The Planet must have been going through. In any event, hope everyone will have a wonderful week!

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