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Update on the Entrecard datacenter, ThePlanet

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Today 12:55 AM:

After the fire marshall inspected the H1 location, ThePlanet was given the green light to bring power back to the facility. The generators have been turned on, and they are receiving power on the second floor. The generator power restoration is the first step in the full restoration of service to the data center.

From here, they will begin the process of cooling the DC floor, which could take a few hours. As soon as the power integrity is confirmed and the DC floor is ready for operation, they will be restoring power and checking server hardware on a rack-by-rack basis.

Today 1:55 AM:

Following the restoration of power to the second floor of the data center, they’ve cooled the data center floor and are now in the process of systematically restoring power to racks.

They’ve got a full staff in the data center to power up racks in sections and verify that the server hardware starts up successfully. This process may take a few hours to restore service to all customer servers on the second floor.

Today 03:05 AM:

They are continuing the process of turning on and verifying hardware integrity of customer servers on the second floor of H1.

Their network operations team is currently working on the ev1servers.net nameservers to ensure that they are online, are routed to correctly, and propogate as quickly as possible.

Servercommand is currently online and accessible.

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Jun 2, 2008

Update on the Entrecard datacenter

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Entrecard is still down. There are no ETA at this time. The outage is pretty serious. They’ve got teams of people there and they’re working through the night. The networking teams are ensuring connectivity to bring ServerCommand back online. Their primary focus is to hit their 5:00pm CDT initial power test and all necessary staff are onsite and are working diligently to hit this deadline. Additional staff and spare server hardware is being delivered in on site in preparation for bringing customer servers online pending a successful power test.

For updates, you may visit ThePlanet forums.

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Entrecard’s Site Downtime

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Jun 1, 2008

Entrecard's Site Downtime

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This morning, I logged in to my Entrecard account, there is a note saying “There was a fire at our datacenter resulting in the failure of some of our systems, our database server appears to be offline still, we’re working on it and we’re really sorry about the issues at this time. more information arriving shortly.”

I also received an email fro Entrecard:

The email from Entrecard quoted below:

Greetings,

Unfortunately, there has been an electrical fire at the data center housing Entrecard’s servers. The servers have not been damaged, but the site may be down for as long as 12 hours.

Entrecard is hosted with ThePlanet, and this fire has effected over 9000 websites, as many of the world’s most popualar websites are hosted with ThePlanet. They are working around the clock to get their data center back online, and we are hoping that they get it back online fast.

Thank you for your pateince and understanding with this rare and frustrating problem. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing we can do but wait for The Planet to get their datacenter back online.

Please check back with Entrecard in 12 to 24 hours.

Thanks,
Entrecard Team

Entrecard’s data center, ThePlanet, suffered from an electrical fire. Today at approximately 5:45 p.m., a transformer in ThePlanet’s H1 data center in Houston caught fire, thus requiring them to take down all generators as instructed by the fire department. All servers are down. Good thing, no servers in the data center have been damaged. They are down because power is out.

Read all updates here, on The Planet’s discussion forums.

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Jun 1, 2008

I'm A Yahoo! Messenger Power User

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I received an email from Yahoo inviting me to be a Yahoo! Messenger Power User. At first, I thought it is a hoax, so I deleted the email. Today, my husband upgraded our Yahoo Messenger. When I sign in to my messenger, a window pop up inviting me to be a Yahoo! Messenger Power User again. So I joined. It started asking me for an icon… You can choose from crown, badge, trophy. I chose crown… They also have special status icon (like the yahoo status icon at the left of my page). You can use these icons to display your online status on websites, social networks, or blogs. Now I’m a certified Yahoo! Messenger Power User.

Yahoo! Messenger Power User Overview:
Yahoo! Messenger’s Power User program rewards IM’ers that push the boundaries by sending the most IMs and engaging with the most friends. They get many cool perks, and first access to new products. It’s Yahoo’s way of saying thanks for using Yahoo! Messenger!

Benefits of being a Yahoo! Messenger Power User:

1. As a Power User, you have access to live customer support. A live Customer Care Agent will be with you quickly to answer any of your Messenger questions.
2. Yahoo will also pay priority attention to any feedback you’ve got on Messenger 9.0 Beta, which they will use to shape the final version of Messenger 9.0 based on your needs. And they will be holding regular votes on what exclusive content you’d prefer—stuff like custom Avatar clothing, Audibles, IMV’s with custom emoticons, as well as special prizes.
3. You will be a member of The Messenger All Stars list Yahoo! Group. As a Power user and All-Stars Yahoo! Group member, you’ll be the first to know about exclusive benefits and giveaways for Messenger Power Users.
4. You get exclusive status icons to show off your Power User status, which allow friends to click and IM you from anywhere on the Web, including your blogs and social networks. Take a look…

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Jun 1, 2008

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