We're back :D

[Desmo]

Been a fire at the data centre in London and loads of servers and sites went down :eek:

[Dymetrie]

Crikey! :eek:

[BBx]

OMG!

BB x

[Knipples]

Was about to ring the Samaritans as I was going mad without my BD fix. :p

Seriously, hope no one got hurt in the fire.

[Justsomebloke]

Desmo did it. :toss:

[Will]

I hadn't realised we went down! :o

[Jonny69]

Wow, cool! Missed all the excitement!

[Flibster]

I hadn't realised we went down! :o

*snigger*

[Garp]

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2035003/risk-bluesquare-site-sends-web-firms-offline ? Not sure I'd classify Maidenhead as London...

[Desmo]

Not sure I'd classify Maidenhead as London...
I didn't really go searching around for where the data centre was at the time so agree with you, although it's close enough :)

[Garp]

I didn't really go searching around for where the data centre was at the time so agree with you, although it's close enough :)

I saw other reports saying "Fire in London data centre" and I've often heard Maidenhead and Reading based data centres being described as "London" too. Claranet has(had?) a point of presence out in Reading (basically a network node where leased lines and *DSL stuff could connect to into our infrastructure). Some international customers found out and insisted they wanted to host servers there as it was a cheaper "London" data centre, but were baffled why we told them it would always ensure it would take 2+ hours to get someone hands on there from our actual London data centres in the Docklands.

[Mark]

That'd explain why I was having problems picking up mail at lunchtime.

Now checking my server is OK - it's in the same DC and has some huge databases that don't like power cuts.

Edit - Ironically me bringing it down to do the checks has done more damage than the outage. Should have checked it wasn't updating first. :/