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Old 06-03-2008, 12:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Explosion and fire at The Planet Data Center

An electrical problem with a generator caused an Explosion in The Planets Data Center in Houston Texas.
Evacuations were called for and the Fire Department ordered a full shut down of their facility.
The explosion leveled 3 walls and knocked out the power to 9,000+ servers and 7,500+ clients.
Luckily no one was injured in the explosion at The Planet Data Center.

After a while they had restored power th the servers on the second floor, however servers that are located on the first floor are currently unavailable. The Planet has offered to physically move all of the servers to their other Data Center in Houston.

As you must know, this is a devastating disaster for a data center. Many clients depend on 100% uptime for their clients and their businesses.

My guess is that because of this long outage many of their clients are fleeing to a host that keeps better conditions and have powerful generators at a safe distance so that they would not harm the data center if for some reason it were to explode.
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My guess is that because of this long outage many of their clients are fleeing to a host that keeps better conditions and have powerful generators at a safe distance so that they would not harm the data center if for some reason it were to explode.
Does cari.net use such a data center?
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Old 06-05-2008, 09:49 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Are generators are far enough away from the building and surrounded by a chain fence.


the images you see in the outer parking spots of the complex are generators.
A few of the generators are movable, if for some reason a generator did go out we could then move the generator to replace.
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