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Short circuit causes server failure

Eric1 min12 July 20155 Views
Short circuit causes server failure

On the morning of 09.07.2015, there was a short circuit in the rack room of our data center in Frankfurt am Main.

This resulted in a slight smoke development, activating the room's fire protection system and rendering the room inaccessible for 4 hours.

A total of 8 large VPS hosts were damaged in the short circuit. Replacement hardware has already been ordered express delivery.

The damage is estimated at €20,000. No data was lost, but the downtime was approximately 72 hours.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Warm regards,
Dominik Hebestreit
2nd Level Support

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Developer and system administrator at ZAP-Hosting, responsible for FiveM and RedM, as well as technical and security topics.

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