Hi everyone! 
For those that were trying to get here the last 3 days, you were greeted with a big ol’ “Page Cannot Be Displayed†message of some sort. I rent this web server from The Planet, which is a dedicated server company in Texas. They operate data centers in both Houston and Dallas, with my server being in their H1 data center in Houston. Back on Saturday, an electrical explosion occurred in the underground electrical conduit that feeds H1. This explosion and resulting fire completely destroyed the equipment connecting the building to the electric grid, the underground cabling powering the first floor, as well as the first floor’s main distribution panel and transfer switch and the four walls surrounding the electrical equipment room. Luckily, no one was injured in the explosion.
About 46 hours later, on Monday, a backup generator came online to run the first floor. The building has on-site generators wired into the building, and second-floor servers were back on early Monday from these generators. The explosion rendered the generator hook-up to the first floor unusable, which is why a different generator needed to be brought in. This got the first floor servers back online, but later that night faulty current sensors took that generator offline, meaning the web server was back off again. Another generator was brought over, and things seem to be running ok at this point.
In the foreseeable future here, there might be more intermittent downtime, and at some point the server will need to switch back to main electric power once the electrical room is built and back online. Until then, it’s "Business As Usual" for now.
