* Posts by Richard

2 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jun 2008

Fire at The Planet takes down thousands of websites

Richard

and again

guys this is nothing to do with poor disaster recovery. the transformers taking the power from the grid have blown up. this damaged the lines in the building and the floors going to the racks. no matter how good your disaster plan is...it wont allow for this scale of event. they have to replace power cables, etc and the servers are offline until it is save to turn them back on. this is a serious failure of power...not simply generators not working or a fibre cable being cut

Richard

give them a break

come on guys....it was a fire and at end of day its better keepin generators off as instructed by a fire department. servers are safer off and isolated while fires and cabling is checked over