There has been an Electric fire with The Planet where around 9000 websites are hosted. This fire is causing problems for lots of popular websites including Entrecard and Statcounter.

I received the following mail from Entrecard today:

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

At the same time the following message is displayed on Statcounter.

Dear Members,

Due to an outage at The Planet (data center) several of our servers are down and service is limited. We sincerely apologise for this interruption in service. Unfortunately, some stats will be lost during this outage. We continue to work to restore full service and thank you for your patience.

The StatCounter Team

Unfortunately there are lots of other known sites. If you happen to know any other such popular site, please drop the information in the comment.


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