We’re back online
June 2nd, 2008 by Tim Uden
This weekend there was an explosion and fire at the data centre in Texas that hosts BUG’s servers, which meant the our websites were down for almost two days.
On Saturday afternoon (Houston time) electrical gear shorted causing an explosion that knocked down three walls. No servers were damaged, but the electrical supply was disrupted. Although the data centre had backup generators, the Houston fire department required that all generators be shut down, bringing down 9000 servers and around 100,000 websites (my estimate as most servers host at least 10 websites).
Everything has now been resolved and we’re back online.
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