Comments on: The Planet is Burning

By: DeeMX

DeeMX — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:23:40 +0000

Backup is great thing, but need also a reserve space on alternative hosting, to redirect your domains in critical situation. Different name servers helps your online business be a stable.

> It’s a big lesson for the members to periodictly back up their web site…Can’t imagine loosing alot of data.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:44:02 +0000

It’s a big lesson for the members to periodictly back up their web site…Can’t imagine loosing alot of data.

By: DeeMX

DeeMX — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:00:35 +0000

It’s a big average. I’m reconciliate with pevious author: alot of people lose their business.

By: Goran Web Design

Goran Web Design — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:01:00 +0000

This is something that we all hope “never happens to us”. Hope everything is sorted, 9000 servers thats alot of business losses.

By: Dr. Mike Wendell

Dr. Mike Wendell — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:22:50 +0000

While I feel sorry for their clients who have been down, I don't feel that bad for the company. We have large portions of their space blocked at our routers due to continued spam and other abuse that never seem to get resolved or dealt with. Dr. Mike Wendell's last blog post..If the grease doesn't get you, watch out for the booze

By: Trisha Lyn Fawver

Trisha Lyn Fawver — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:52:33 +0000

I find it very funny that nowhere on their own site does it mention the fire at all. Kind of lame if you ask me. Trisha Lyn Fawver's last blog post..Free Toolsday for June 3rd

By: David Vogelpohl

David Vogelpohl — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:15:51 +0000

@Jonathan_Dingman – If you don’t have a team of engineers who take care of disaster recovery, backup etc., it’s good to be reminded that things can and will go wrong.

I’m also pretty sure that anyone hosting their site with The Planet during the outage felt it affected their marketing activities

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:39:24 +0000

Good that this is being reported across the web, but how is this marketing related? Jonathan Dingman's last blog post..Google Patents: Page Turning Graphical User Interface

By: seo dude

seo dude — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:59:23 +0000

Quite a few big companies host with them including entrecrad. Poor bloggers were all in panic when this has happened. It looks like everything is going to be back to normal soon. seo dude's last blog post..23 creative ads for your inspiration.

By: iPod Touch

iPod Touch — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:33:56 +0000

Haha great song Information Man. This does show the importance of backing up regularly. Not just with websites but with your harddrive. I reinstalled windows but hadn't backed up everything properly. Spent hours and money trying to get it back. Would have taken 5 minutes to simply back it up in the first place. John iPod Touch's last blog post..Movie Trailer Watch

By: Information Man

Information Man — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:13:05 +0000

Yesterday (singing)
Yesterday, all those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away,
oh i believe in yesterday.

By: Warenwirtschaft

Warenwirtschaft — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:29:09 +0000

This can really hurt a business, when a Webshop or a similar business is not available. I wouldnt even know how to setup my sites so that they can run from different providers. Do you do automatic backup and just switch the DNS entry when something happens?

By: iPod Touch

iPod Touch — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:41:57 +0000

Thought this was going to be an article on global warming! My site has not been effected I don't think but I regularly backup my site for situations like this! John iPod Touch's last blog post..Movie Trailer Watch

By: Owen Cutajar

Owen Cutajar — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:35:48 +0000

There’s an interesting lesson here for people who rely on suppliers for their disaster recovery. Most site owners (especially the smaller ones) expect sites to just live on forever, when there are scenarios like these which are just out of their control.

It’s always good to have a plan B, regardless of how big or small you are.

By: Keylogger Guy

Keylogger Guy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:16:41 +0000

Thanks, I’ll backup my site soon. Always be lazy with respect to essential things.

By: Trisha Lyn Fawver

Trisha Lyn Fawver — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:02:41 +0000

Entrecard was down too. Affected a lot of bloggers site traffic... but also a good lesson not to put all your traffic eggs in one basket. Trisha Lyn Fawver's last blog post..Win Fabulous Prizes!

By: Allison Reynolds

Allison Reynolds — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:32:21 +0000

Yeah heard it was a transformer blow out…nasty stuff if you ever see one (I saw the aftermath of similar when a fire sprinkler upstairs in a datacentre leaked water down the sealed cabling into a massive UPS system in the DC).

I was missing Statcounter like crazy over the weekend.

By: Real Estate Blog Girl

Real Estate Blog Girl — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:59:16 +0000

No kidding. Oddly enough, we used to house some personal servers there when we lived in Houston.
On the bright side:
1. When not burning The Planet was great and very secure.
2. This situation makes it clear why you should have geographically diverse servers and replication turned on at all times.

By: Trisha Lyn Fawver

Trisha Lyn Fawver — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:58:56 +0000

Well... this makes me happy I didn't choose to bail on my host after a former acquaintance started working there. Trisha Lyn Fawver's last blog post..Win Fabulous Prizes!

By: Lea

Lea — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:02:00 +0000

Yes, “round robin the dns” has been on the todo list for a while now, just haven’t gotten it together to do it and face the double work in updates
But I guess it has to be done…