[General] Hurricane Ike

As some of you are aware of, there is currently a major hurricane swirling around in the Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane is expected to make landfall later tonight or early tomorrow morning around the Houston, TX area. We do not have any servers located in Houston, but we do have servers located in Dallas, TX which is about 250 miles Northwest of Houston. We are not expecting any major issues with this storm. The storm is expected to weaken quickly once it makes landfall. Dallas will probably see some rain and maybe some thunderstorms, but we are not expecting any major problems. The datacenter is equipped with backup generators, so in the event of power loss the backup generators will kick in and run the datacenter.

Obviously our foremost concern is with the people in the path of this storm and those that may be affected by the storm. Hopefully the storm will weaken further before it makes landfall and not cause much damage.

We will continue to monitor the situation. We just wanted to let everyone know that we are aware of the situation and to let everyone know that the datacenter does have measures in place to guard against problems like this.

Steven