Server Site Explosion at ThePlanet.com
June 2nd, 2008 by FuzzTagged as: explosion, fire, servers, The Planet, ThePlanet.com.
ThePlanet.com, home to over 9,000 website servers, suffered from a transformer explosion on Sunday afternoon. The explosion and subsequent fire at it’s Houston-based H1 Datacenter took all of their servers offline, though they did not destroy any servers. The radio stations’ (WBWI/WBKV) websites were among the thousands of websites that were affected by the blast, and at the time of this post, they are still not fully operational.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
The 9k number is just the servers that had to take off line due to the fire department’s request. They have more of them as well as other datacenters.
I wonder how many spammers they took offline. We have large portions of their space blocked due to constant spam problems and other abuse. I feel sorry for their clients but not too bad for the company.