16 Responses

1. Gary Jones :: BlueFur.com

   01|Jun|2008 1
   

   I thought I read about a fire at Houston Planet DC.

2. Latina

   02|Jun|2008 2
   

   Still down on Monday, June 02 1:55am…

3. web2domain

   02|Jun|2008 3
   

   DigitalPoint has been down for a while but Statcounter and SitePoint have been working for me. Just tried host-tracker and its down here too.

   Parts of Statcounter were down on the weekend due to fire I believe, not sure whats up with these sites now.

4. Wolf Nibori

   02|Jun|2008 4
   

   I read that they had a fire caused by a transformer blowing up… Scary stuff! I didn’t know it effected those two sites tho.. awful! Glad no one was hurt tho at least

5. Alex Melen

   02|Jun|2008 5
   

   Statcounter itself is up, but between my several accounts, about 25% of the projects are still loading as errors. Some of the other ones are still missing big chunks of data.

   As of 8am June 2nd, I’m still having problems loading all four. Host-tracker has been down almost 24 hours now. Almost 12 hours for Digitalpoint. Very very strange. I also don’t see much discussion about it. No one has mentioned anything on the other big webmaster forums that are still up (WebHostingTalk, V7N, etc..).

6. Alex Melen

   02|Jun|2008 6
   

   As of 3pm EST DigitalPoint seems to be back up.. but there are many other sites which are still down. Adding to my original list, ozzu.com (another large webmaster forum) is also down. From their site:

   “Ozzu is currently down. We are working to restore ozzu.

   Yesterday evening at 2:55pm PDT 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.

   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 backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department.

   This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock.

   I am sorry that this accident has occurred and I apologize for the impact.”

7. Wolf Nibori

   02|Jun|2008 7
   

   Thanks for the updates man I’ve been waiting for DP to go back up!

8. Alex Melen

   02|Jun|2008 8
   

   No problem! Host-tracker, Ozzu &Statcounter also seem back to normal This was definitely one of the bigger outages I have seen in many years.

9. Richard from GoStats

   03|Jun|2008 9
   

   I made a post over a DP about avoiding downtime in the DC fire:
   http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=8000611
   -I hope it is helpful for those who were affected by the outage. (plus a shameless plug of my sevice which stayed up during the ordeal - no stats were lost!)

10. Alex Melen

    03|Jun|2008 10
    

    Statcounter is back to being down for me:

    “The server at my2.statcounter.com is taking too long to respond.”

11. StatCounterJen

    03|Jun|2008 11
    

    Hi all,

    We are desperately sorry for the interruption in service in recent days and thanks to all of your for your patience as we worked to restore full service. Everything is “up” again now and full information is available on our blog:
    http://blog.statcounter.com/?p=91

    If you are having continued difficulties, please report the issue in our forum. http://forum.statcounter.com/vb/

    All the best!

12. Chris

    03|Jun|2008 12
    

    Well, DP and other site was back to online. I think they are little faster now than before.
    And I did got error in statcounter of my site in that day and actually I didn’t know about those server shutdown until I went to DP.
    Well good news, all are back to business now.

13. Louis Lim

    12|Jun|2008 13
    

    It really amazes me to see so many well known site going offline. Just a few minutes ago I read a post saying that Amazon went down for 2 hours. And now this…

    Hope that this will never happen again.

14. Alex Melen

    13|Jun|2008 14
    

    6/13/2008 11pm EST: Digital point down. Here we go again??

15. Alex Melen

    14|Jun|2008 15
    

    … and it’s back up again this morning.

16. ibrahim

    24|Jun|2008 16
    

    thanks good company is backup!!