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Server Downtime Update

by Steven Rodriguez - June 2, 2008, 10:22 am EDT
Total comments: 5

The subsequent fire forced our host to shut down the entire data center, affecting 9,000 servers. Thankfully, no one was hurt in the incident and no one lost any data. NWR was never in any real danger of being lost to the Internet, as we redundantly back up our servers onto each other in case freak accidents like this happen.

It appears that our physical server was none the worse for wear, and once our host resolves its power issues as a result of damage to the building, we should be just fine. However, we were quite lucky to be located on the second floor of the building, as the first floor suffered major damage to networking and power systems significant enough for them to be knocked out of commission for at least the rest of the week. If our server was down on that level, we may not have been around for quite some time!

That's the explanation about our downtime. We apologize for not being here, even it was completely out of our control.

Talkback

KDR_11kJune 02, 2008

9000 or OVER NINE-THOUSAAAAAAAAAND?

NinGurl69 *hugglesJune 02, 2008

That's not a server room, that's a MATRIX BODY HARVEST.

D_AverageJune 02, 2008

Had the NWR server been destroyed, that would have been far worse than the Back to The Future set burning down at Universal over the weekend! 

Shift KeyJune 02, 2008

Wow, you go out of town for the weekend and the forums explode literally hrhrhr

I deny all allegations I was in Texas over the weekend.

ShyGuyJune 02, 2008

I went into work this morning and found out we were affected by this too. Our SMTP server only came back up after several angry phone calls from people. SHUTUP PEOPLE

A news article: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011131199

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