Why this site was down for a few hours 4/3/06...

DeltaRomeo · #1 04-03-2006, 08:54 AM

Copper phone lines (not fiber) were partially severed outside the office suite in St. Louis, MO where the data center that houses the VAF servers resides. The primary and backup lines were cut unfortunately, which is why everything went down, including their phone service. Roughly six hours after the accidental cut the lines were repaired.

Sorry for the inconvenience. I missed it too

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Best,

Doug R.

7pilot · #2 04-03-2006, 10:10 AM

I was on it when it went down...seems kinda strange that a line got cut at midnight! Who was digging at that time of night?

DeltaRomeo · #3 04-03-2006, 11:54 AM

This might help:

Attention FrontPages Web Customer:

As you are no doubt aware we have experienced network outages over parts of our network beginning at approximately 2am CST. The power company was forced to disconnect all telco connections to our office complex in order to restore power to some customers who were affected by power outages related to the severe storms in the midwest that took place around 5:00PM cst yesterday. The affected network connections have been restored as of approximately 9:30am CST.

If you have further questions feel free to ask, but please be patient with us as we have a significant backlog of questions to respond to.

Thank you for your patience.

Network Engineering

FrontPages Web Hosting Network

Regards,

FrontPages Web Hosting Network Support Team

Ironflight · #4 04-03-2006, 01:22 PM

I just figured that it was the next recipient of your flu bug !

aparchment · #5 04-03-2006, 05:08 PM

Paul:

From his description of symptoms, Doug's flu bug was just a common, garden variety virus rather than a species jumper. Now if Doug had been infected with the malicious and extremely adaptable West Texas Bloodhound Blue Tick Exploit virus, his server could have been in dire peril! This virus has already been known to jump from dogs to people and then to Wintel computers.

Antony