Fire at data centre sends Aruba offline
29th April, 2011
Italian hosting company Aruba was knocked offline for a few hours today after a fire broke out in the centre of a server farm.
Aruba said the fire involved UPS batteries and confirmed that no servers had been damaged; however, the fire alarm system caused the power to be cut, sending many websites offline. Aruba started restoring power once it was deemed safe to do so.
At the time of writing, Aruba has restored 2 out of 3 data rooms and warns that the ongoing UPS restoration may result in unexpected downtime if there are any further power interruptions. Further updates can be found on Aruba's Twitter page.
Posted by Paul Mutton in Performance
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