Re: UKHA Archive Down

[Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is the archive still down? I'm having trouble reaching it at the
moment.

Thanks,

Tim.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:30 PM, the_home_automator
<dbuckley@xxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi fellas
>
> Due to a catastrophic failure at the colo centre where the Archive
lives,
> its been down for a few days and if we're lucky, it'll be back up by
the
> weekend.  If we're unlucky its going to take me a while to rebuild an
> archive site with over 100K messages.
>
> The catastrophic event was accidental release of inergen fire
suppressent
> gas into the data centre.  Before the release everything was humming
along
> nicely.  After the release, more than 500 harddisks were trashed.
>
> Those of you with a heavy IT background will of course understand that
this
> isn't the way it supposed to be, Inergen is supposed to be a nice
harmless
> gas.  But the guessing at the moment is that due to either a sudden
change
> in room pressure, or possibly sudden loud noise, rotating platters and
> stationary heads had a touchy feely moment, making the disk instantly
> useless.
>
> The colo centre, owned by Consonus, is in Utah.  WestHost.com, my
hoster
> host there, along with their sister company vps.net.  Both are are now
> owned by UK2.net who you'll all be familiar with.


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