Post by The R.S. on Jun 1, 2008 15:19:32 GMT -5
And quite literally people- an explosion. ProBoards has an overall host called The Planet which has recently suffered some sort of explosion concerning their H1 Data Center. I heard some rumors going around that some places such as Invisionfree forums are completely offline because they were apparently caught in the middle of this situation- it is not cofirmed if this is true or not.
The explosion or fire happed yesterday afternoon. Here's a quote from Kevin Hazard, an administrator of The Planet forums.
ProBoards has received information that none of their servers were damaged during this incident, but the fire did knock out all power within the building and a good handful of the ProBoards servers were knocked out. At the time of me posting this, these ProBoards servers are currently offline due to of relocation of the data.
ProBoards Support have also released what they have planned in regards to this situation, concerning the downed servers.
Quote from Patrick Clinger, head of ProBoards.
From everything that I was able to gather, I think only a certain number of ProBoard servers were in the building at the time of the incident. It's hard to say because I have not found any infromation regarding this. But since our server that Rescue Team Chaotix is on now, which is Server 104, we seem to have been up and running through all this incidents without any problems. The possibility that our server is hosted someplace else that is not effected by this fire is a good thing to keep in mind.
I'll try to keep on top of this topic as best as I can, but if you'd like to keep tabs on it yourself, just go on the following link.
support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=status
If you have any questions that you think I might be able to answer, feel free to post any concerns here.
BULBYEDIT: All the temp servers are back up. That means that all the boards are being restored to data back in April, and they will be completely restored within the next few days. As I originally suspected, the server we're on (104) wasn't affected at all because Server 104 is likely contained in a different building.
The explosion or fire happed yesterday afternoon. Here's a quote from Kevin Hazard, an administrator of The Planet forums.
Today at approximately 5:45 p.m., a transformer in our H1 data center in Houston caught fire, thus requiring us to take down all generators as instructed by the fire department. All servers are down.
We are working with the fire department, with our facilities staff on site, to assess the situation.
We are working with the fire department, with our facilities staff on site, to assess the situation.
ProBoards has received information that none of their servers were damaged during this incident, but the fire did knock out all power within the building and a good handful of the ProBoards servers were knocked out. At the time of me posting this, these ProBoards servers are currently offline due to of relocation of the data.
- Sever 23
- Server 24
- Server 27
- Server 28
- Server 29
- Server 33
- Server 45
- Server 46
- Server 47
- Server 48
ProBoards Support have also released what they have planned in regards to this situation, concerning the downed servers.
Quote from Patrick Clinger, head of ProBoards.
Current Plan of Action
For background information on what has transpired today, please read this thread. The short and skinny is there was a transformer explosion outside our hosting facility which has taken offline many of our servers.
After long discussion with our host, this is our current plan of action to get all servers back online:
1) We have ordered 24 brand new servers. These are currently being setup and will be online soon.
2) Our DNS records will be updated the moment we have information to do so, so that our domains begin to work again. We expect the DNS records to take approximately 1 hour to update to point to the new servers.
3) We need to setup and configure these 24 servers. This includes installation of everything from apache, mysql, perl, mod_perl, modules, etc. This process can take some time.
4) We will be transferring the data from our backup servers to these new servers. This process will most definitely take time.
5) Once the backup data has been transferred over we will bring the servers online and you will have access to your forum.
Important things to note:
Backup Data
The backup data that is being restored to your forum is not permanent. We expect within 2-3 days (estimated) that we will have access to the full data from all our old servers.
Our plan for your data is:
1) Get your board up and running as quickly as possible from our backups.
2) Once our old servers are back online, copy all the data from them to your new forum
3) Try to minimize loss of any data due to overlapping updates to threads/members, etc, although this may not be 100% possible.
The backup data from your forum will be from late April 2008. In a few days we should have all the rest of the data from the end of April to the end of May. There is no data loss and we will get your forum's data back to how it was to the best of our ability, but this will take up to a few days as we wait for our old servers to come back online.
Issues Affecting Some Forums
Most, but not all forums, have a full backup at this time. As such, some forums may have to live for a couple days without their full data. This may include posts, members, etc. We will work to get all of your original data pushed over as soon as our old servers back online.
We apologize for this inconvenience and will be working throughout the night to bring 24 servers online, get them configured, and restore all data that we have available to us at this time.
For background information on what has transpired today, please read this thread. The short and skinny is there was a transformer explosion outside our hosting facility which has taken offline many of our servers.
After long discussion with our host, this is our current plan of action to get all servers back online:
1) We have ordered 24 brand new servers. These are currently being setup and will be online soon.
2) Our DNS records will be updated the moment we have information to do so, so that our domains begin to work again. We expect the DNS records to take approximately 1 hour to update to point to the new servers.
3) We need to setup and configure these 24 servers. This includes installation of everything from apache, mysql, perl, mod_perl, modules, etc. This process can take some time.
4) We will be transferring the data from our backup servers to these new servers. This process will most definitely take time.
5) Once the backup data has been transferred over we will bring the servers online and you will have access to your forum.
Important things to note:
Backup Data
The backup data that is being restored to your forum is not permanent. We expect within 2-3 days (estimated) that we will have access to the full data from all our old servers.
Our plan for your data is:
1) Get your board up and running as quickly as possible from our backups.
2) Once our old servers are back online, copy all the data from them to your new forum
3) Try to minimize loss of any data due to overlapping updates to threads/members, etc, although this may not be 100% possible.
The backup data from your forum will be from late April 2008. In a few days we should have all the rest of the data from the end of April to the end of May. There is no data loss and we will get your forum's data back to how it was to the best of our ability, but this will take up to a few days as we wait for our old servers to come back online.
Issues Affecting Some Forums
Most, but not all forums, have a full backup at this time. As such, some forums may have to live for a couple days without their full data. This may include posts, members, etc. We will work to get all of your original data pushed over as soon as our old servers back online.
We apologize for this inconvenience and will be working throughout the night to bring 24 servers online, get them configured, and restore all data that we have available to us at this time.
From everything that I was able to gather, I think only a certain number of ProBoard servers were in the building at the time of the incident. It's hard to say because I have not found any infromation regarding this. But since our server that Rescue Team Chaotix is on now, which is Server 104, we seem to have been up and running through all this incidents without any problems. The possibility that our server is hosted someplace else that is not effected by this fire is a good thing to keep in mind.
I'll try to keep on top of this topic as best as I can, but if you'd like to keep tabs on it yourself, just go on the following link.
support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=status
If you have any questions that you think I might be able to answer, feel free to post any concerns here.
BULBYEDIT: All the temp servers are back up. That means that all the boards are being restored to data back in April, and they will be completely restored within the next few days. As I originally suspected, the server we're on (104) wasn't affected at all because Server 104 is likely contained in a different building.
