UKHA Archive Down

["the_home_automator" <dbuckley@xxxxxxx>]

Hi fellas

Due to a catastrophic failure at the colo centre where the Archive lives,
its been down for a few days and if we're lucky, it'll be back up by the
weekend.  If we're unlucky its going to take me a while to rebuild an
archive site with over 100K messages.

The catastrophic event was accidental release of inergen fire suppressent
gas into the data centre.  Before the release everything was humming along
nicely.  After the release, more than 500 harddisks were trashed.

Those of you with a heavy IT background will of course understand that this
isn't the way it supposed to be, Inergen is supposed to be a nice harmless
gas.  But the guessing at the moment is that due to either a sudden change
in room pressure, or possibly sudden loud noise, rotating platters and
stationary heads had a touchy feely moment, making the disk instantly
useless.

The colo centre, owned by Consonus, is in Utah.  WestHost.com, my hoster
host there, along with their sister company vps.net.  Both are are now
owned by UK2.net who you'll all be familiar with.



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