Hokey smoke. Indeed.
At 10:20 am this morning, we [NAC] had a component failure in the UPS at our Site B co-location facility in Parsippany, NJ. We had no warning of this failure, and we are currently investigating the cause. This failure triggered the fire alarms and the fire suppression system, and caused the UPS unit to drop all power to Site B. In addition, because this failure caused the fire alarms to be set off, the entire building had to be evacuated while the fire department investigated. NAC personnel worked with the fire department to ensure the building environment was safe to re-enter.
Some of the core switching equipment in Parsippany was affected by this UPS failure and power outage and had to be moved to a backup power system. At approximately 12:00pm the fire department allowed all personal to re-enter the building.
The power failure did not affect any customers located at our Newark, NJ site or any services in any other states.
We are currently assessing any on-going issues, but most services have been restored. We will post an additional update as more information becomes available.
“Most services” did not include, until a few minutes ago, all of Hosting Matters‘ servers. But now, obviously, it does.
Whew. Nice to be back on the air.
That was scawwy. Funny how you depend on the blog being there like turning on the TV and seing Emeril every time…
I just figured that the Overlords had decided that you had finally outlived your usefulness to them, and had done away with you.
>…and caused the UPS unit to drop all power to Site B.
Site B? Isn’t that Isla Sorna?
Yup. Not only was my blog down, but the pteranodons got loose. Bummer.