Back online again after lightning, fire, explosions, and crashin
Post created: Jun 02, 2008
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As of June 3, 2008 we are back online again. Yesterday I had sent out the following email, and sadly around 4am eastern time the data center's back up generators crashed. Since this has happened, I have instructed my hosting company to move my server to a location that is a few miles down the road from this current location. There should no longer be any down time.
Thanks for understanding!
(this email was sent on june 2, 2008)
Yes, the subject of this email sounds dramatic, but it is true. Some of you may have noticed that WantToGoOut.com was out of service since saturday night... YIKES!!!!! Not only were we out of commission but thousands of other sites were also out of commission.
You see, the computers that store WantToGoOut.com's files happen to be situated in Texas. The other night a lightning bolt hit close by this building, it ended up blowing up a power transformer. This explosion was so strong that Three walls in this facility fell down, actually, three of the walls that were in the room where my server sits. Then because of this a bunch of websites were gone. (thousands of sites)
Still as of this moment the power is still out at this facility but they are running our servers on generators.
Just in case you were wondering, I am INCREDIBLY happy to be back online. This was a freak accident, and a lot of us have learned valuable lessons for the future so this should not happen again. However we all know none of us have power over mother nature.
http://www.wanttogoout.com come back and support us, well, because we are free and live and online...
I missed you all more then you know!
Kindly,
Jon
Thanks for understanding!
(this email was sent on june 2, 2008)
Yes, the subject of this email sounds dramatic, but it is true. Some of you may have noticed that WantToGoOut.com was out of service since saturday night... YIKES!!!!! Not only were we out of commission but thousands of other sites were also out of commission.
You see, the computers that store WantToGoOut.com's files happen to be situated in Texas. The other night a lightning bolt hit close by this building, it ended up blowing up a power transformer. This explosion was so strong that Three walls in this facility fell down, actually, three of the walls that were in the room where my server sits. Then because of this a bunch of websites were gone. (thousands of sites)
Still as of this moment the power is still out at this facility but they are running our servers on generators.
Just in case you were wondering, I am INCREDIBLY happy to be back online. This was a freak accident, and a lot of us have learned valuable lessons for the future so this should not happen again. However we all know none of us have power over mother nature.
http://www.wanttogoout.com come back and support us, well, because we are free and live and online...
I missed you all more then you know!
Kindly,
Jon