UTAH QUAKE knocked out major US web hosts BlueHost Hostgater

[uncleyap]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html



Update time = Thu Nov 10 6:40:17 UTC 2011

MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
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deg DEPTH
km Region
MAP 4.1 2011/11/10 04:27:45 39.292 -111.129 0.1 UTAH
MAP 5.3 2011/11/10 02:34:54 -1.562 138.398 30.4 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km Region


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[uncleyap]

quite a number of big data centers are there in the quake zone

If you are web owners found your sites down don't be surprised.

 

[sense]

Pinging hostgater.com [70.86.108.50] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 70.86.108.50: bytes=32 time=281ms TTL=48
Reply from 70.86.108.50: bytes=32 time=247ms TTL=48
Reply from 70.86.108.50: bytes=32 time=256ms TTL=48
Reply from 70.86.108.50: bytes=32 time=245ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 70.86.108.50:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 245ms, Maximum = 281ms, Average = 257ms

 

[uncleyap]

Came back up already. In less than 1 hr.



Likely the fiber did not totally break. Using backup connection and power to recover.