The Planet, one of the largest operator in US lost their Houston H1 data center facility on 31st of May due to electrical fire.

OMG !!! My Servers are on fire.

As per their official forum, the primary transformer suppling power to the facility caught fire and actually exploded. The explosion caused serious damaged to the buildings electrical system. It was so powerful that it knocked 3 walls down.

Local state Fire fighters didn’t allow the company to run any back up electrical source like their heavy duty generators forcing the facility to completely go off line.

For information, the Planet primarily hosts many of the hosting service providers. Hence not only their direct customers but rather many indirect customers found their services to be effected with this incident.

The Planet as confirmed that there is no physical damage to any of the servers or networking / computing equipment, however at this point they are still working round the clock to asses and repair the damage done.

Incidentally, ChotoCheeta.com is hosted at The Planet’s Dallas facility !!!

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