I've just received news from my webhost that The Planet is facing some network issue... now, all my sites are down.. Anyone else here is hosted in The Planet's data centers? Can you confirm if the center is down?
Mine were down until about 15 minutes ago. Offline for about an hour. I was editing a site when it hit and after 15 minutes, finally submitted a trouble ticket. They responded that the planet was having some network troubles in one of it's datacenters.
Thanks for the confirmation.. I was checking my site and managed to access it for about 10 minutes before it is down again... Currently, the status is DOWN!!..
I'm just wondering, how many sites are affected because of this? The Planet being one of the big data centers should host quite a large number of sites, I believe...
The host I use has at least 50 (probably more) servers there. I have accounts on three of them. Mine are back up again...for the moment. My biggest concern is the oft discussed approaching google update. I'd hate for months of hard work to be lost because my site was unreachable a day or two before an update. That's probably far fetched, but it crossed my mind.
All my sites were down for about an hour due to Hurricane Electric .. I don't pretend to know how all those systems affect each other. All I know is my hosting provider was quick to shift the blame
All my sites are down again....This is going to be frustrating today. One minute they are up...the next they are down.
You guys should move all your sites away from ThePlanet.com because they were the source of worms and viruses hitting the forums when they were being attacked. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=6793 Minstrel did some research when the attacks on the forums were happening and found out most of the attacks were being done from Turkey but that the hackers sites were being served from ThePlanet.com http://www.bandofgonzos.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1881 Move on and find a better host before the government shuts this host down for criminal activities.
I'm not on The Planet....It is a problem much higher up the line and is affecting 1000s of hosts I have 3 different hosts and all are affected. Even some of the Google Datacenters are having issues - "Page cannot be displayed"
Could be something like UUNET (MCI) with network problems, last time this happened in the states big sites like Google and Yahoo were having problems because Akami had some trouble.
LOL, I was just about to have a moan about this when my downed account's site and email came back... I'm not on the Planet (take that as you will ) but a site/mail have been affected by possible association...
Huge thread: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=390336&perpage=15&pagenumber=1 Hope it's ok to post that link, I don't know all the politics of the board yet.
Yeah G-Tech i skimmed over the 51 pages of it. This is so annoying...The 1 site i wanna go on is on theplanet server and has been down for already 4 hours. Grrrrrr
Logging in to see it would be the least time consuming part of the thread! I was on page 8 of the comments and finally just clicked the "last" link. Up to 51 pages in that thread as of this post. Hundreds of people having the same problems. One post mentioned 6 of the datacenters were offline and that five are back. Of course, everything was happening and being posted faster than I could read the comments. Seems it was (is?) a huge problem with The Planet. My sites are back as of this post. I'm seeing a number of comments towards the end referring to power outage, but cannot find a good source yet. There are the typical "victims" whose lives have gone down the drain because of a three hour outage. Some conspiracy theories, etc. Hopefully all is resolved.
The Planet sucks and supports criminal organizations and should be shut down anyway, everyone should find new hosts because they are hosting virus writers and malware sites. I hope they get shut down by the government and Minstrel will comment on these criminals soon.
LOL Cheers GTech I'm just being forum lazy today whilst doing 10 other jobs at the same time Anthony, you need a Knights Templar avatar, dude, you look to be on a Crusade right now
I would actually be happy about their current problems if it wasn't that so many other non related hosts (like mine) were affected by whatever this issue is. My sites seem to be stabilizing and google bot has come back but theplanet and its hosted sites are still down