jf2020 Posted June 1, 2008 Posted June 1, 2008 This is a message from the hosting company in Houston where the DVBViewer.com server is located. This evening at 4:55 in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost. And you guys are believing this story about electrical gear that shorted? It just overheated with all those downloads of the latest DVBViewer version and blew up! Quote
Lars_MQ Posted June 1, 2008 Posted June 1, 2008 Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. Well the DVBViewer server isn't THAT big. Quote
Benarty Posted June 1, 2008 Posted June 1, 2008 Blah, a good hosting company has electrical backup, CO² fire extinguishers to en electrical failure of any kind should not lead to such damage. DVBViewer website was not entirely down , just the members area and if DVBViewer is using a dedicated server then this unit should stop responding completely. Even when hosted on a sevrer that deals several other websites, same, as soon when the server get's no power, poof website not accessible. As usual, things don't happen on their own...it's always a matter of several instances and most of the time created by humans and in this case the first event may be made several months ago... Quote
Lars_MQ Posted June 1, 2008 Posted June 1, 2008 Why there was an explosion is not our concern and I don't believe CO2 would have stopped an explosion, they tend to happen quite suddenly and unannounced, you know? Fact is three walls down, firedepartment says maybe structural damage nobody gets in. Ergo no backup powerplan can help you if you can't get in. About 9000 servers are down and we are lucky our forum (.info) is hosted by a completly different company and server, even on a different continent. As I said, we only can wait. Quote
Lars_MQ Posted June 2, 2008 Posted June 2, 2008 keep your fingers crossed it stays that way. Christian is currently checking everything. Lets hope nobody pulls the wrong plug there Quote
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