Comments on: p2pnet back online

By: M

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:57:16 +0000

Hosting company here. Suffered a bit but The Planet took care of us in the end.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:09:16 +0000

For a big company like The Planet not giving due considerations to power supply redundancy and particularly maintainance is STUPIDITY.

A blown up transformer is a sign of overloading and poorly maintained. The planet should not only hire IT personel but Electrical Engineers as well to prevent similar occurences in the future.

Other hosting companies, watch out.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:29:02 +0000

Yes it has been a boring week, that explosion took out a few sites I frequent.

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:30:15 +0000

“A transformer in The Planetâs H1 data center in Houston, Texas, caught fire, causing a lot of problems for a lot of people downstream, including p2pnet.”

“Caught fire”? I read that the tranformer *exploded*, blowing out three walls in the process and destroying the underground cabling that supplied the power.

In any case, it’s nice to see the site back online. I thought the worse also when I couldn’t reach the site, but then I did a couple searches and found a post mentioning the data center meltdown as the likely reason the site was offline.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:03:48 +0000

Read this when it was happening on their forum and suspected this site was hosted there. Saw you up the first time before you went back down but either the server load is so heavy or the bandwidth so restricted I finally gave up the first time on connecting, was nothing but timeouts.

This time I opened another tab and just let it keep trying. After 5 minutes or so, I have seen my first article here since you went off line. I gather they still have a ways to go.

Thanks for the update. Crap happens.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:06:56 +0000

“but rumours that p2pnet has been taken down by the CRIA, RIAA, MPAA, Kazaa boss Nikki Hemming, Wayne Crookes, Sandvine … ”

I’m sure many of us might have put MediaDefender high on the suspect list.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:38:48 +0000

sorry 4 double post

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:35:57 +0000

^^ So that’s what’s doing it. Thought my PC was out of whack again.

Just let me know if u need me Jon, and we’ll do a supersonic flyby of RIAA HQ and shatter all their windows if timed right.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:35:18 +0000

^^ So that’s what’s doing it. Though my PC was out of whack again.

Just let me know if u need me Jon, and we’ll do a supersonic flyby of RIAA HQ and shatter all their windows if timed right.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:48:57 +0000

This is off topic – Jon, any chance of making the Tek Savvy ad shorter in length. It makes it so I have to scroll sideways to read the stories. Thanks.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:24:01 +0000

Ouf! That was a close one.

Some of our units where already proceeding with plane helicopters and thanks to THE RIAA head quarter And the programming of cruise missile for the MPAA has been completed and readied for launch.