Over the weekend a large data-centre in Texas suffered an electrical fault, resulting in a fire and in several thousand servers providing services to several thousand customers (including me, indirectly, as my Statcounter site statistics service is hosted there), being taken off line - with some data-loss. A fascinating chronology of how Planet, the company running the data-centre, handled the emergency, is (currently) visible on the company's bulletin board.
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... and including me, directly, as downes.ca is hosted on the Planet.
I will say, after the initial 28 hour outage, service was restored and stayed restored, with absolutely minimal disruptions (a few connection drops, which I notice because of my mail server). All things considered, they did quite a good job.
p.s. Remember - back up your data. Because you never know... :)
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Thanks Stephen.
My visitor tracking service - Stat Counter - uses Planet. Thus: "Due to an explosion in The Planet Datacenter service on this partition was interrupted. Despite our best efforts 24 to 30 hours of stats spread across Sunday, 1st June GMT and some of Monday morning, 2nd June have been lost. We sincerely apologise for this." Trivial for me. Not so good if I'd been heavily reliant on the service.
Seb
Posted by: Stephen Downes | 16/06/2008 at 22:32