Hi, just a quick, uh, update a video because you might have noticed that the Eevblog website is down. That means the center of the Universe is down. Which is the Eev blog forum. Um, everyone's getting withdrawal symptoms.

They're having to check themselves into clinics and all sorts of things because, um, yeah, they can't get their fix of, uh, the Eev blog forum. unfortunately. And the website and my email has also, uh, been down since as of approximately uh, the fourth of the fourth at uh, 2100 hours? Uh, it's been down for quite a few days now. What is it? Currently it's the 6th of April.

Um, almost midnight on the, uh, yeah, so almost the 7th of April now. So it's been down for like three days or something. Um, yeah, and it's kind of a big deal, So I just wanted to, uh, update you on what's happening. Not that I know much.

Uh, we're waiting for it to come back because, uh, what happened is there was a fire basically at the Uh Data Center in Ogden, Utah at Gorilla Servers, which is the company I use to host the dedicated servers. Uh, for the Evblog website, the Ev Blog forum, Eevblog.org is also down where I do the podcast. uh, host the podcast videos like the streaming 720p podcast version, and stuff like that. It's all down their entire, even their own website does not work.

I'll refresh that now. Nope, Gorillaservers.com is down. So they do actually have an update, uh, here on webinx. I guess it's one of their other companies that's still up because it's ironically hosted somewhere else.

So let's have a quick reader list. Now that we have a better understanding of what happened, we would like to give everyone an update. One of our old generators that have has worked for years and was recently load tested had a mechanical failure and caught fire, resulting in power being cut to our core routers and fire suppression system controlling the fire. So I guess the automatic sprinklers and everything else.

So a certain fire suppression. They probably might not use water they might use, you know, some gas or some data centers you know, fill up with inert gas and things like that. which, uh, extinguish the fires. Not sure which.

um, uh, unfortunately. uh, the fire department opted to cut power to the rest of the building as a precaution even though the power systems were independent. So it's even though this backup generator fire failed, the fire was controlled. Uh, this data center could have still operated including uh, presumably my Uh servers.

So yeah, they, um, but the fire department just cut power to the whole complex. It's a massive complex in the middle of the desert somewhere. Um, yeah. We are currently waiting for an emergency inspector to arrive.

give the all clear so and bring back most of the servers in Ogden back online. Some servers will have an extended outage as those may require rebuilds due to some water damage. Okay, it looks like they do have sprinkler system or that might have been the fire department. Who knows, Um whose builds have high probability that data is intact.

We'll like to thank you for your patience. blah blah blah blah blah. So uh yeah. their uh, latest update on Twitter? Uh, their current uh, Gorilla Servers Inc.

Um, Host Vision Follow Host Vision on Twitter. That's gniff on the Eev blog forum. He's the one who maintains the Eev blog Uh Servers and Gorilla Servers current updates project that close to 90 to 95 of all Guerrilla Servers hardware. Well make it bigger.

Experience: Zero damage. What's the bet? Even money that the Eev blog servers are the ones impacted. Anyway, electricians are working and now to restore power to the Ogden Utah Data Center and an estimated powershell return at approximately 3pm Mdmdt Either I think that's mountain time or something tomorrow. So that time has passed.

but since then, uh, last night, my emails started to come back. So my email server I've got a Cpanel email server which handles email and a bunch of other uh stuff and that's all working again because if you don't know, we have uh, three servers for the that handle all the Eev blog infrastructure. One is, as I said, the email server and the Uh which handles some other stuff as well. and also uh.

two redundant dedicated servers. These are all dedicated boxes. They are shared, so I've got actually three dedicated boxes. There's Xeon something or other.

Anyway, two redundant Xeon database servers which handles all of the forum and the uh, Wordpress website and all my online store and stuff like that. Yes, my online stores down. I might still be able to ship some uh stuff if you've got an order in, because then I use a third-party shipping system so the orders might have been automatic. I haven't checked today.

we're going to ship some today, but they should automatically have been imported in, so hopefully uh, those will still go out even though this is all down. So yeah, so I've got so they're a redundant Uh server. so if one fails, it takes like the database is mirrored and shared and it's all complex. Uh, Genif has set all this up.

It's all you know. Advanced Penguin, uh, stuff. So I don't know too much about it. But yeah, so that's all safe.

And by the way, all the data's safe. All the backups if for some reason, uh, the server, the data center has actually lost the data on the drives in the server machines. We do have full daily backups in two separate Uh locations, professional backup services. and at most we might and uh, genius said that.

um, it's he did check and it was during the backup time is when the whole thing went down. So at worst we're going to lose like a day's worth of posts on the forum or something like that. if my uh server is one of the ones affected. So there you go.

Which Murphy, that's it. Like yeah, it's going to be back. It's interesting that my Cpanel email server is back, but the others aren't but they are on different subnets. They could be fine.

It's good chance it's fine, but they're within different subnets in the data center. So yeah, so they bought one subnet back up and the other ones? Yeah, they're just separate. So we we just don't know. We just got to sit back and wait.

Um, they have said that they can't uh uh, like give dedicated. You know, say oh yeah, this um, clients servers will be back up and running or whatever time. But anyway, they are past the time when it's supposed to come back up and the website hasn't come back up yet so we're just going to have to wait. I don't know how long it's going to be.

So yeah, that raises uh, some interesting uh questions. and we just put up a dedicated uh gene if just got this dedicated page hosted somewhere else and redirected the Dnses. So at least it shows you something and this you'll get the updates. There's no more update.

I don't think he's updating anything in the background. No, no, we're just going to have to wait. He's monitoring it and it'll eventually come back online. But that raises some interesting questions.

I know there's going to be one million responses down below of how we're doing it all wrong. and we should be using a cloud infrastructure. We should be using a more reliable, uh, data center. and uh, come on right.

And a fire in a data set? A fire in a generator. This could have happened to any data center, really. And I guess you can make an argument that it should be on, you know, Amazon cloud or whatever. But hasn't that gone down in the past? I mean, it's just like Murphy's gonna get you right.

We've had no issues with, uh, this current host for I don't know. I mean, five plus years at least. I think. uh, we've been on these dedicated uh boxes at Gorilla Servers and we haven't had an issue apart from, uh, like technical stuff.

you know, like it's yeah, it's not like they were unreliable, it's just other things. Uh, sort of have taken the website down here or there for like, you know, hours or a day or something like that. Um, but yeah, that wasn't really. Um, the server's their actual fault.

So anyway, um, yeah, I don't know. Flame away down below. Yeah, got caught with pants down. Data's safe, but yeah, um, it's been out for three.

probably four. Could be longer days that everything's down. At least my email is back. And I guess that's a lesson that I need to set up some sort of redundant email exchange server thingamabob.

I do actually use Uh Gmail for all of my gmail is actually my interface for email. So if you send a email to Dave at Eevblog.com then it actually just gets forwarded to Uh Gmail. And it actually replies I've got. like the reply to section in there is Davidev Blog.

So you don't know that I'm actually reading all my email on Uh Gmail, so it's mostly there. But anyway, it is back up. But um, yeah, because a lot of stuff was tied to Dave at Eevblog.com Um yeah, I couldn't do a lot of stuff like I couldn't get like do email confirmations for doing, uh, various online activities and stuff like that. So yeah, um, it's a bit.

I hate. Gmail has gone down before, so you know, yeah, it's Murphy's going to get you at the worst possible time it will happen. Um, so I don't know. Yeah, everyone will flame away down below.

Hey dumbasses Dave for using that. You know, just hosting it on a couple of little dedicated boxes in the middle of Utah somewhere. But no, there's there's reasons why we do that. A lot of people ask why we don't host in Europe or something like that.

The majority of, uh, the viewers and the forum users and stuff like that are sort of like Us-based U.s is probably the best place to actually host it in terms of like latency and you know all that, uh, sort of stuff. So you know Yeah, it could be hosted here, in Australia, could be hosted in the Eu, could be hosted in, you know, some little, uh, I don't know, Tin Pot Island somewhere in the Pacific or something. But I yeah, Anyway, there you go. Just wanted to give you an update.

Uh, so I can't do the keysight, uh, drawing. by the way, because the forum's not available. I, you know, I don't have ability to. I run my Wobulator program and all that.

but I'll probably do the drawings for the other Uh ones probably today. So yeah, anyway, there you go. Just wanted to give you an update. It's down, could be down for a while.

I got no idea. um, if we do have to, if my servers were impacted by the, uh, water damage or whatever and the hard drives were lost. Yeah, we might lose like you know, half a day or up to a day at most worth of uh, forum posts or something like that. So that does happen.

Um, sorry. It's uh yeah. There's probably reasons I think we did look at doing like a live database backup somewhere. we already run a redundant system.

It's just that the whole data center has gone down. So it's like, you know, so we just do a daily uh backup. So yeah, we don't have a third off site redundant, live, redundant synced database server. It's all complicated when you try right to multiple databases multiple times we've actually had uh, technical issues regarding on on the forum regarding actual uh, the use of having the multiple databases because you've got the sync issues with it.

I don't know the exact you know technical stuff behind it, but you know it can get complicated when you try and share all of your databases. You know they're trying to all sync and be live and stuff like that. We have image problems on the forums for attachments they weren't linking correctly and stuff like that. So if all your databases aren't synced, I'm sure Gdif can inform people down below if you've got technical questions about the whole thing.

But there you go. Yep, still down. I don't know when it'll be back. Sorry, got no idea.

Um, we'll just have to wait like everyone else, but my email is back Davidevblog.com so that allows me to do some stuff. Yeah, Flame away. catch you next time.