fire at theplanet datacenter

[Francisck]

hey guys!

did you hear about the fine at the planet that left nearly 700,000 websites down?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/5813223.html

Best Regards,
Francisco

 

[epidemik]

Thats a bummer.
Is thePlanet a hosting company?
Ive never heard of them.

 

[Francisck]

It's one of the first and one of the biggest

 

[epidemik]

It's one of the first and one of the biggest

Oh wow. I guess none of the sites i visit are hosted with them
I imagine they got the sites back up extremely quickly.

 

[Francisck]

most of them are down as they are not allowed to turn on their backup generators

 

[DCIScouts]

Weird, I know it's kind of off-topic, but Universal Studios lost a bunch of old movies (fortunately just the back-up copies, not the originals) and the sets for King Kong and Back to the Future. Kinda coincidentally weird and bad...

 

[Francisck]

So they just lost backup reels of the original movies?

hmm and they actually lost the whole sets???

 

[DCIScouts]

Oh yeah, it was a huge fire! CNN was covering it for quite a while. Let me see if they have a story on their site...

Here's a couple of the stories:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/02/universal.studios.fire/index.html?iref=newssearch
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/01/studio.fire/index.html?iref=newssearch