It’s a bad day on the Internet today and you may notice that many of your favourite sites are down today . That’s because of an electrical fire with The Planet (a server hosting company if you’ve never heard of them before).

The fire is causing a lot of sites to be down during the day and the downtime can in worst case be as much as 12-24 hours .

Entrecard.com is one of the effected companies and here’s the email I got from them:

Greetings,

Unfortunately, there has been an electrical fire at the data center housing Entrecard’s servers. The servers have not been damaged, but the site may be down for as long as 12 hours.

Entrecard is hosted with ThePlanet, and this fire has effected over 9000 websites, as many of the world’s most popualar websites are hosted with ThePlanet. They are working around the clock to get their data center back online, and we are hoping that they get it back online fast.

Thank you for your pateince and understanding with this rare and frustrating problem. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing we can do but wait for The Planet to get their datacenter back online.

Please check back with Entrecard in 12 to 24 hours.

Thanks,

Entrecard Team

None of Xavier Media’s websites are hosted with The Planet, but this will still cause problems for us since our sites using Entrecard will of course not function as planned . For example you can’t join our contests at Entrecard Contests during the fire

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