Comments on: Houston Data Center Explosion and Fire http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/06/01/houston-data-center-explosion-and-fire/ Spurring innovation and entrepreneurship. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:56:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: SomeDude http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/06/01/houston-data-center-explosion-and-fire/#comment-346392 SomeDude Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:05:04 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/?p=1707#comment-346392 It was just a transformer that blew up in the building, what's with all the crazy conspiracy theories and rumors? Seriously, it's whacked when a company actually tries to be upfront and honest with its customers and then some douche starts spreading rumors that might drive customers to actually dishonest companies. There was no FBI, no upgrade... the power company's transformer just went boom. No one got hurt and all is well. You'll get over it. It was just a transformer that blew up in the building, what’s with all the crazy conspiracy theories and rumors? Seriously, it’s whacked when a company actually tries to be upfront and honest with its customers and then some douche starts spreading rumors that might drive customers to actually dishonest companies.
There was no FBI, no upgrade… the power company’s transformer just went boom.
No one got hurt and all is well.
You’ll get over it.

]]> By: CodyLoco http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/06/01/houston-data-center-explosion-and-fire/#comment-346369 CodyLoco Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:18:37 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/?p=1707#comment-346369 Nobody can honestly complain about the servers going down- This could have happened to any datacenter and had it not been for the firefighters stopping them the power would have been back up almost immediately! On the flipside, it did stall the fixing of their order form bug that was giving users 3x bandwidth: http://www.web-hosting-coupon-deals.com/dedicated-servers/the-planet/34-the-planet/52-theplanet-pay-296-for-a-799-server-huge-server-sale.html Nobody can honestly complain about the servers going down-

This could have happened to any datacenter and had it not been for the firefighters stopping them the power would have been back up almost immediately!

On the flipside, it did stall the fixing of their order form bug that was giving users 3x bandwidth: http://www.web-hosting-coupon-deals.com/dedicated-servers/the-planet/34-the-planet/52-theplanet-pay-296-for-a-799-server-huge-server-sale.html

]]> By: Ferodynamics http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/06/01/houston-data-center-explosion-and-fire/#comment-346337 Ferodynamics Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:30:22 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/?p=1707#comment-346337 It never fails to amaze me how many problems these datacenters have. No matter how many precautions they take, it's always something bizarre like this. Fires, floods, explosions, robberies, generators that don't work, power grid problems, disk failures, disgruntled employees, it's always something. It's like life, you're breathing one minute and dead the next. Which reminds me, I should probably backup my data ;-) It never fails to amaze me how many problems these datacenters have. No matter how many precautions they take, it’s always something bizarre like this. Fires, floods, explosions, robberies, generators that don’t work, power grid problems, disk failures, disgruntled employees, it’s always something. It’s like life, you’re breathing one minute and dead the next. Which reminds me, I should probably backup my data ;-)

]]> By: Brian_D http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/06/01/houston-data-center-explosion-and-fire/#comment-346327 Brian_D Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:02:13 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/?p=1707#comment-346327 Blank Label Comics was affected, one I visit on weekdays, Waspi Square by Paul Taylor is down and gets redirected to the notice page Blank Label Comics was affected, one I visit on weekdays, Waspi Square by Paul Taylor is down and gets redirected to the notice page

]]> By: martin http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/06/01/houston-data-center-explosion-and-fire/#comment-346325 martin Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:22:24 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/?p=1707#comment-346325 thats why zetaboards and invision are down aswell thats why zetaboards and invision are down aswell

]]> By: allen http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/06/01/houston-data-center-explosion-and-fire/#comment-346320 allen Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:49:40 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/?p=1707#comment-346320 hey thanks for the compliment - i appreciate it! hey thanks for the compliment - i appreciate it!

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