Chief Delphi Back Online!

[Pavan Dave]

For a little while now CD has been inaccessible to many people. You are not alone. The site was down.

Originally Posted by Brandon's Away

DNS for chiefdelphi is down -- data center issue. something about a transformer on fire .. .. robots from another planet? :-o

Brandon's Away message during the CD troubles and the Slashdot article of the explosion at ThePlanet database server went hand in hand and explained the crisis to many FIRSTers right away.

Slashdot

Originally Posted by Slashdot

Customers hosting with ThePlanet, a major Texas hosting provider, are going through some tough times. Yesterday evening at 5:45 pm local time an electrical short caused a fire and explosion in the power room, knocking out walls and taking the entire facility offline. No-one was hurt and no servers were damaged. Estimates suggest 9,000 servers are offline, affecting 7,500 customers, with ETAs for repair of at least 24 hours from onset. While they claim redundant power, because of the nature of the problem they had to go completely dark. This goes to show that no matter how much planning you do, Murphy's Law still applies.

Pavan

[Brandon Martus]

Yep -- the server ChiefDelphi (and firstwiki) is on is hosted in Dallas, so it wasn't in any danger. Our DNS, however, is hosted in Houston .. so most people couldn't get to the server.

[wendymom]

Glad you are back.....and no one was injured

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by wendymom

Glad you are back.....and no one was injured

Except for our collective psyche....

[Mike Martus]

I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?

[KathieK]

Originally Posted by Mike Martus

I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?

I did. *sigh*

[Protronie]

Originally Posted by Mike Martus

I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?

You should see my workshop... going to take a week to clean it up.
Its funny how "Hooked on Robotics" one can get... and how badly we start going to pieces and slinging tools around when our mainline goes down.

It wasn't pretty!

-p

[Cynette]

Whew! The twitch in my left eye is starting to subside now....

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Mike Martus

I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?

<raises hand> But it had absolutely nothing to do with CD being inaccessible...

-d

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Mike Martus

I wonder how many users went into withdrawal and needed therapy?

It's a good thing it was off season and not say the last Sunday in February or March. Then it would have got ugly.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

It's a good thing it was off season and not say the last Sunday in February or March. Then it would have got ugly.

I would've fixed it way faster, then.

Off-season .. I just let things work out on their own.

[JaneYoung]

Well, lack of CD has made me a mite philosophical.

There was a time not too long ago when communications like this were not so instant, wide spread, and influential.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Regarding CD - it is a lonely thing when it is gone, I do know that.

Thank you to the folks who restored access.

[Dan Petrovic]

I was (kind of) freaking out because I had stuff I needed to post about Mayhem in Merrimack.

I even logged on before going to school to get it out.

I'm not exactly a morning person and I like being early to get a good parking space, so having any downtime in the morning is rare.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

I noticed that the TIMs accounts for teams were also down... Are the FIRST servers in Texas?

[JesseK]

Ha, go figure, some network servers at work were messed up. I contributed inability to get on CD to the inability to get on any external site altogether and vice versa, hence I never tried anything else on the internet until lunch time. See what happens when we use any one thing as a metric for other things?