Saturday, June 25, 2005

CSGZ Server Down Due to Fire

The Counter Strike Game Zone Server has been down since 2:00 cst due a fire that severed the Internet connection to the datacenter where the server is located. We received the official word from our host this morning:

"The entire Chicago Equinix Facility went offline around 2:00AM last night. This was due to a large fire a few blocks from the facility that knocked out the power in the area. Now we have generators to run power to our equipment but they are temporary and only last a few hours because its not usual for something like this to happen.

Once the generators went down our servers went down which happened around 2AM. I have been talking with Equinix and have been told that everything should be backup shortly and we are near the end of this catastrophe. I do not have an exact eta on everything coming back online but we will stay on top of things and once humanly possibly we will have everything back online. "