The Planet

Apologies for the downtime of the site over the last couple of days; it was caused by an explosion in Houston, Texas at ThePlanet.com's datacentre which knocked out over 9000 websites including my own. It took me a while to establish what had caused the problem, mainly because I'm down a hierarchy of 2 other companies before I get to ThePlanet (SureSpace.net that purchases reseller hosting from HostNine.com who rent space from ThePlanet.com).

The explosion was caused by an electrical fire in one of the rooms of the facility, the blast was powerful enough to take down 3 walls in an equipment room but fortunately no-one was injured and none of the servers were damaged. The downtime lasted around 36 hours, as they fought to restore power after being re-allowed access to the facility by fire services.

I was writing a blog at the time of the accident at about 7pm BST Saturday and was quite aggravated by the sudden downtime; but I am at least pleased that everything has now been repaired and that no data was lost.