Jun 02 2008
Effect of The Planet’s accident
This morning, I received an email from EntreCard, with their apologies on the site’s downtime. It was due to an accident at their server host – The Planet.
At first, I thought it was just affecting EntreCard, which I concerned very little at that point.
Then, almost 12 hours passed, I checked my traffice in StatCounter, shocked to find out that my traffic recorded almost nil, for yesterday and today. I remembered checking it yesterday, and it was looking healthy! Read on, and found out The Planet’s accident actually affected a lot of sites including StatCounter!
Apparently The Planet is hosting over 9k sites, and my counter happened to be in the affected partition, which was not recording. I understand there is nothing SC team could do to restore the lost traffic counts. Quite upseting, but couldn’t blame anyone on accidents, can I?
According to SC, they chose The Planet for its claim of safety backups as follow:
From The Planet website:
With multiple state-of-the art data centers located in Dallas and Houston, Texas, The Planet provides On Demand IT Infrastructure backed by complete redundancy in power, HVAC, fire suppression, network connectivity, and security. So if any of our data centers experiences a disruption for any reason, your eggs (or servers) are never in one basket.
They surely cheated their users in this, coz they actually put all their eggs in one basket.
I’m glad my host sends their backup to a backup server in Singapore, well at least according to him. It should be this way – spread out in different geographical locations!
Hi Suzette!
I see you’ve pulled together enough BlogExplosion credits to get back to the Battle of the Blogs, and I am here to give you my vote on Monday night.
Interesting news about the Planet…I use Sitemeter, which I believe was unaffected, but my traffic went from about 150-250 visitors per day down to 50 for the 24-hour period when EntreCard was down, and I give EntreCard a lot of credit for driving traffic to my blog.
Made it tough to get to the 15,000th visitor!
Have a great night, though I’m guessing it is probably daytime in your part of the world.
Roxy
Hi! Roxy: Thanks for the vote! Yup, just got enough to enter the battle with 25 credits. But then, 25 credits are not attractive enough, it took almost a day, and the battle is still not ending yet! LOL!
Fortunately, it looks like Entrecard is back up and functioning pretty well now, so it seems that the outage has simply given us a one-day vacation from our dropping routines. For me this was a welcome break because I managed to log in shortly after the site came back online and was able to scoop up some relatively inexpensive advertising deals.
Karl: Wow! I didn’t think of that! You are right, and I’ve missed the boat.
I am not sure that all their websites are in the same location. But I think with that accident, perhaps the planet will create a means of backup, don’t you think?
Imagine if Google went down, how many dollars would alot of people lose,