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UK clients affected by data centre fire | | 2008/06/03 | | A massive fire in at a Houston data centre has affected several UK clients after ripping through the premises of The Planet web hosting company last Saturday (May 31st)
The blaze is thought to have led to an explosion which added to the extensive damage which saw 9,000 servers lost and nearly three-quarters of a million websites disrupted.
Many servers were forced to be disconnected despite suffering no damage, on the advice of firemen.
The firm has announced that 6,000 servers are due to be back up today (Tuesday, June 2nd), with another 3,000 due to be up and running by tonight.
The Planet's chief executive Douglas Erwin revealed to Information Age: "Damage to our H1 data centre is worse than initially expected."
He detailed: "Three walls of the electrical equipment room on the first floor blew several feet from their original position, and the underground cabling that powers the first floor of H1 was destroyed."
According to the firm, no customer data was lost in the fire.
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