Meedios.com down? (2 Viewers)

[revs]

If is just me? Seems like Meedios.com has been down a few days now?

 

[GoldenEye]

It's not just you. I've realised that, too.

G.

 

[strontium]

There was a fire at the planet datacenter in Texas where meedios is hosted. Could be the reason why, although that was at the weekend.

 

[revs]

Ah yes, heard about that fire - didnt even think that it may be the cause!

 

[jestermgee]

Meedios.com is down due to not just a fire, but a full explosion at the data center that hosts the site. It happened on the weekend and they are still trying to get all 6000 servers online.

There is a blog of events here:

Maintenance at The Planet

Here is a quote of the accident:

May 31 – 10:46pm

On Saturday, May 31st at 4:55pm CDT 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.

As a result ServerCommand is currently not available and we are working to bring it back online as quickly as possible. In the meantime, please call support 866.325.0045 for any issues. Additional support technicians are on staff to help. Status updates will be made available via the phone system as well on our forums at http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185

We are sorry for the incident and sincerely apologize for the impact.


Sincerely,

The Planet Customer Support Team

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

So much for the "we should have everything back working sunday afternoon", just forgot to say which sunday