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