As you know this weekend we experienced 28 hours of downtime where Gt was not working due to an explosion at the facility we maintain our server hardware. It is still being determined if it was lightning or naturally related. After closer inspection this morning it appears it was a transformer in our data center that had caught fire, thus requiring our server technicians to take down all generators and servers as instructed by the fire department. Over 9000 servers were down during this unpreventable major outage.

Our network and hardware specialists had been working with the fire department, with our facilities staff on site, to assess the situation and have restored all services and servers to "better then before" performance. Thanks for being patient while gametoast was down and we are now back 120%.

Get more from your "burnt" Toast.

So you didn't just scrape off the black bits eh? What a waste of a perfectly good sammich. Good to hear it's good and better again though

Guru defeated: Unruly Fire Sammich

Unruly Fire Sammich dropped: Improved Sammich of Great Hosting.

Well it's good to be back.

Wow. Thats very random. Oh well hope all is okay now and that it didnt cost too much money to repair things.

The_Emperor wrote:So you didn't just scrape off the black bits eh?

"Your toast has been burned and no amount of scraping will remove the black parts!"

Anyways...that's no good. But it's nice to know that the servers are running better now than before.

Yay! The return of Gametoast! gtpwn

wahoo gametoast is back from teh dead!!! lol i didnt think it was a real explosion until i read this

What? It was over 9000?

Lord Bardar wrote:What? It was over 9000?

WHAT? Over 9000! There's no way that can be right!

An explosion? Really?
No, it's not really funny, but I WAS wondering why it was down. Actually, I was kind of glad it was down. I was gone like four days, so it made me not miss as much!

Hmmm... the InvisionFree boards must have been in that building as well. I couldn't access any of their sites over the weekend. But now they're also back.

Needless to say I was kind of bored over the weekend.

Yeah, they were, a whole bunch of stuff was.

It was at in houston. Statcounter had a blog post about it.

Sorry for the explosion I won't do it again...

JK. Just glad its all back and running.

Odd something like that happened, I mean they do use high security there and I bet they will try harder to protect it too. Anyways glad to see GT is back and better than ever!

Was anyone hurt from this explosion? Anyway i'm glad that Gametoast is back. But atleast the explosion wasn't me this time . I guess I needed a break from my computer for a while.

Wow... That's... exciting.