The Planet explodes into darkness

The Register today reported that one of The Planet's 6 data centres has plunged into darkness, taking 9000 servers and 7500 customers down in a massive outage caused by, they say, a transformer exploding and causing a fire in their electrical equipment room.

Fire crews disallowed the hosting company's Houston-based centre from activating their backup generator plan, so whilst they have established their network and server equipment has suffered no damage, their customers are left unable to access websites, email and other facilities.

The Planet are posting hourly updates to the situation on their forum, so if you are a customer affected by their H1 data centre outage, please get the latest information here.

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