Hurricane + Servers

As I am sure many of you know Rita is heading towards Texas - well these servers which power over 500+ sites I host, as well as several servers which house sites like CMCentral.com, PalmLoyal.com, and numerous other businesses and communities (much like this one), so there is a risk of outage as the hurricane reaches land.

I have been talking and foruming with my datacenter to discuss what plans are being made to handle it, and boy howdy, they have mobilized a lot, but still mothernature has a habbit of being more powerful than anything we have ever seen - but the company who manages the DC’s CEO has gotten additional massive generators, stockpile of fuel to power those generators, and a lot of on-call help as soon as folks can come back into the area.

So 2 fold, this is just a heads up, sites may be slow or unresponsive - but everything humanly possible is being done to insure backup power, internet connection stays valid, and data is kept safe.

However #2 - if the worst does indeed happen, steps are being taken as I type, backups from the last 2-3 days are being moved off that network to a remote location - this will allow me to restore servers at another datacenter as we wait for our hardware and resources to become available again.

Prayers are definately appriciated, the datacenter is keeping people on hand at each location to do what they can to make sure the lights stay on and facilties remain safe, so I am not only asking for prayers for me and my temporary staff of helpers - but as well as those manning the datacenter through the storm - it’s going to be a wild couple of days - and I am sure sleep will be few and far-between.

I’ll update with more if anything changes! Take care