CI Host Dallas Power Outage (06-10-09)

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Posted by sykosoft, 06-11-2009, 02:01 AM
Just didn't see any topics on it yet: CI Host had a power outage today (6-10-09), and man. I was in the middle of a 16 hour maintenance to upgrade the OS on my server, when suddenly, I lost connection. I emailed, opened tickets, nothing. I called, and was on hold for over 2 hours, nothing. I finally had an answer "oh, we had a power outage". Apparently, they had a tornado warning, and went to pro-actively switch to the generator, power failed, and apparently, the UPS where my server is was overloaded. Not only that, but it never came back up. Come to find out (after 4 hours), the server it toast, got hit by lightning or something. This is definitely not a pleasant day. Michael