It seems I'm up for some surprise today. At 7AM PDT, our electrical supplier, Cebu Electric Cooperative II (CEBECO II) shutdown power at the town of Sogod, Cebu, where my brother-in-law has an Internet cafe and where I usually hang out during the weekend to do my blogging and manage the web sites I have started (you can see a list of them at the bottom of this blog). The announcement stated that power will be restored by 5PM PDT, but it was restored around 3:40PM, and I happily trotted to my brother-in-law's Internet cafe so that I can reciprocate drops for my Entrecard.
I was in for another round of online frustration. Entrecard is down, caused by a fire which hit The Planet, where Entrecard servers are hosted. (Official announcement here. So much for The Planet's fire suppression system.)
I received the following email from Entrecard's support team:
Greetings,Unfortunately, there has been an electrical fire at the data center housing Entrecard's servers. The servers have not been damaged, but the site may be down for as long as 12 hours.Entrecard is hosted with ThePlanet, and this fire has effected over 9000 websites, as many of the world's most popualar websites are hosted with ThePlanet. They are working around the clock to get their data center back online, and we are hoping that they get it back online fast.Thank you for your pateince and understanding with this rare and frustrating problem. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing we can do but wait for The Planet to get their datacenter back online.
Please check back with Entrecard in 12 to 24 hours.Thanks,Entrecard Team
