Widespread outage
 

Hi...
I lease a dedicated server from a smaller company, and on Thursady May 15 at 10am central my forum went down. I called the owner of the company(he's usually very accesible) and he told me that there was a major outage where the data center is..in Dallas,Tx.
I'm getting worried though, here it is Sunday, I haven't been able to contact him, since first day it happened, his email is down too. He had voicemail but thats not picking up either.
I won't name the company because the owner has always been very good to me and reliable, I just am curious if anyone has heard of a major outage in Dallas area, or anywhere for that. I just wish I'd hear something ....kinda gets frustrating and there has to ba a good reason why he can't contact .....

Nothing listed for Texas here:
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

That doesn't mean that the data center itself hasn't been cutoff though. A lot of things can cause localized interruptions.

like someone forgetting to stop the bath ...

Last time I talked to him Thursday he said it was widespread affecting many companies and servers.

That must be one big bath...

.....The name of the company is Lighti.Net. If I don't hear from him by tomorrow I'll be posting Has Anyone Seen Lighti.Net.

I hate doing something like that, but it's been since Thursday, not a word fron them, no phone, emails bounce back nothing. Haven't had any calls from them either.

I need to find out if anyone is having the same problem with Lighti.Net I can't keep my members on hold forever and I don't even know forsure if it's around anymore..Lighti.

Sorry Steve...but I had to ..

I suggest posting on a site like webhostingtalk.com.

Try here: Providers and Network Outages and Updates

There are data centers here in California that support up to 400 companies on their networks. A hosting company can be as small as a single server in a rack or require their own data center. I know my host only has a couple of machines in the data center. But the data center isn't very large either as the entire building is solar powered.

I'll post here too because he did post here too.