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viscousmemories
11-18-2004, 01:58 AM
Hi Folks,

We're very sorry to any of you who tried to get here this afternoon and weren't able to. Apparently our webhost had a major malfunction (to say the least) and we were incapacitated for approximately six hours. Here is the official notice:

Official post-outage notification

From 1:32 PM EST to 7:17 PM EST, We experienced a massive fiber-cut, when MCI-owned and operated OC-48 and OC-12 fiber strands, including a trunk terminating into our primary datacenter, were accidentally cut by VA Department of Transportation (VDOT) in Northern Virginia. Our MCI-operated circuits arrive at our building through a collapsed trunk, despite dozens of miles of protected fiber on our local ring. The cut was so close to our primary datacenter in McLean, VA that it affected this portion. Circuits on order are confirmed to be on a separate ring coming into the building from a different location. More details will be made available as they become known.

Thank you,

-The Network Response Team

Again we're sorry, thanks for your patience and welcome back!! :)

SharonDee
11-18-2004, 02:05 AM
Whew! For a second there, I thought my employer was trying to curb my web surfing. Nothing like a good case of the guilts to make you a better employee. :D

beyelzu
11-18-2004, 02:10 AM
glad to see ff back up and running, I was all concerned and shit.

Dingfod
11-18-2004, 03:47 AM
I started to think is was just websites that started with "F", neither Freethought-Forum nor Fark were working, probably due to the same fibre cut.

viscousmemories
11-18-2004, 03:54 AM
Actually it was my fault Fark was down.

Dingfod
11-18-2004, 04:10 AM
Downloading http://img.fark.com/images/2002/topics/boobies.gif?

viscousmemories
11-18-2004, 04:18 AM
Those aren't pillows!