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Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers

Posted by kdawson on from the could-happen-to-anyone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Customers hosting with ThePlanet, a major Texas hosting provider, are going through some tough times. Yesterday evening at 5:45 pm local time an electrical short caused a fire and explosion in the power room, knocking out walls and taking the entire facility offline. No one was hurt and no servers were damaged. Estimates suggest 9,000 servers are offline, affecting 7,500 customers, with ETAs for repair of at least 24 hours from onset. While they claim redundant power, because of the nature of the problem they had to go completely dark. This goes to show that no matter how much planning you do, Murphy's Law still applies." Here's a Coral CDN link to ThePlanet's forum where staff are posting updates on the outage. At this writing almost 2,400 people are trying to read it.

14 of 431 comments (clear)

  1. 9 Volts of Love by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Electricity is a fickle mistress, one moment she's gently caressing your genitals through gingerly applied electrodes the next she's blowing up your data centers.

  2. explosion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lesson learned: don't store dynamite in the power room.

    1. Re:explosion? by Gazzonyx · · Score: 4, Funny

      Lesson learned: don't store dynamite in the power room. But they told me to take it out of the room with the fuel for the generators, the management offices, and HR department...
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  3. trying to read it by z_gringo · · Score: 5, Funny

    At this writing almost 2,400 pelople are trying to read it. Posting it on slashdot should help speed it up.

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    1. Re:trying to read it by Lorcas · · Score: 5, Funny

      Here's a new update from Urvish Vashi: To keep you up-to-date, some idiot posted this forum page on slashdot. Expect some slowdowns and interruptions trying to access this page. ps: **** you slashdot.

  4. Recovery costs by Scuzzm0nkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder what the dollar value of the repairs will run? I'm sure insurance covers this kind of thing, but I'd love to see hard figures like in one of those mastercard commercials: Structural damage: $15000 Melted hardware: $70000 Halon refill: $however much halon costs Real-Life Slashdot effect: Priceless

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  5. This is BAD KARMA!! by Izabael_DaJinn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly this is bad karma resulting from all their years of human rights violations....especially Tiananmen Square...oh wait--

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  6. Helpful Slashdot! by quonsar · · Score: 5, Funny

    At this writing almost 2,400 people are trying to read it

    and as of this posting, make that 152,476.

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  7. No servers were damaged by cptnapalm · · Score: 4, Funny

    They need to build the building out of what ever they build the servers out of.

  8. It must have been HACKERS by Eudial · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because Hackers can turn your computer into a BOMB!

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  9. Monty Python by Sentry21 · · Score: 4, Funny

    electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding their electrical equipment room. But the fourth wall stayed up! And that's what you're getting, son - the strongest data centre in all of Texas!
  10. Re:Kudo to their support team by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not sure I want to go to a std.com domain, might get infected...

  11. Printer ignition source by kmahan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Last message on the linux console before the explosion:

            lp0 printer on fire!

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  12. Re:More planning could have prevented this by NewbieProgrammerMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wish I had mod points...I think this is the first time I ever wanted to mod those 5 words up.

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