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Important News Regarding Yesterdays Downtime
I have been notified that yesterday (March 17th 2011) this amongst other sites hosted with our host Vidahost experienced a power outage which was caused by a small explosion within the datacentre’s UPS power systems. The fire brigade was called and, once the building was declared electrically safe, power was restored through the on-site generators. After a short delay to ensure safety, they were then allowed in the building to restore service.
Most servers restarted automatically as designed and were up and running quickly, however some required manual intervention such as filesystem checks, to ensure no data was lost. As they only use new, high-end servers and the majority operated exactly as designed. No data loss was observed.
