Fire At The Planet Affects 9,000 Servers

June 3, 2008 By Digital Trends Staff

Fire At The Planet Affects 9,000 Servers

A fire at Texas data center, The Planet, has affected 9,000 servers, meaning thousands of web pages around the globe have gone down

They call the data center in Texas The Planet, a place full of servers. But a large fire has taken 9,000 of the servers at The Planet offline, bringing down thousands of web pages around the world.

An electrical short reportedly caused the blaze that destroyed three walls around the data center’s electrical equipment room.
In a blog post, The Planet team wrote:

"We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our back-up generator plan based on instructions from the fire department."

The company is working to get the servers back online as soon as possible, and will recompense customers as per the service agreements.

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Mark at 11:05am 6th June 2008 At Jason Howard:
Customers received two months worth of credit for the outage.

The Planet's still the DC for me.
Jake in LA at 3:48pm 3rd June 2008 Maybe the Planet has some sweet Ins. replcement deal in effect and will rebuild to be bigger and better. If I was the Ins. company, I would be looking around for used matches.
James at 10:35am 3rd June 2008 The Planet is a terrible hosting company. They are plaqued with unhappy customers, poor support and now this.
Tim Stevens at 8:41am 3rd June 2008 So each person will get something like $10 per day per server...