…and we’re back!
Whew. That was fun (not!)
My apologies for our outage for the last 5 days. Not that it was my fault, but I still feel bad about it. I know many of you have missed your “org fix” as one person wrote to me in email. In case you didn’t get the mail I sent out (some people seem not to have — reminder, check the email address the org has on file for you!), we were down starting last Saturday night, due to an electrical fire and subsuquent explosion (!) where our servers are hosted, in Texas, at theplanet.com. This was a catastrophic failure for their power systems, and while things like a normal power cut, would not have caused any problem, an explosion destroying much of their underground wiring, certainly did 
Over 9,000 servers were affected, approximately 7,000 customers, including, of course, our beloved org. Fortunately, no one was hurt in the fire and explosion!
The folks at theplanet.com worked round the clock for days to restore power, and finally restored it to all the servers about a day ago. The org wouldn’t come right back up, however, and after some manual intervention on their part, we were able to return to service about 6 hours ago. My thanks to the good folks at The Planet, and I really appreciate everyone’s patience while we waited for them to slog through the repairs. It’s great to be back!!
June 5th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Whoop Dee Doo! I’m glad the Org is back up but the local residents here acted as if a major part of their life was taken away, damn I didn’t know it was that serious.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I’m happy to see that things are up and running. I’m just glad that nobody got hurt from this fire. It’s good to be home again.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:45 am
This happened to Proboards too. Weird.
Glad we’re back
June 5th, 2008 at 9:46 am
It [felt] like a million days:)…
June 5th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Welcome back Whorg - resistance is futile
June 5th, 2008 at 10:03 am
So glad nobody got hurt, and thanks for caring about us.
Over 9,000 servers affected and 7,000 customers, wow - you really got back up fast.
It was lonely - I really like to come here and check out news of an ARTIST I admire, and see what else is going on in music.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I am so glad to have everyone back safe and sound! I missed everyone. Thank you for coming back!
June 5th, 2008 at 10:47 am
…..good. …gravy. …..marie.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:51 am
It’s about time! lol…. :p
June 5th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Ben, thank you for the fine job that you do on The Org. I never realized how much time I spend here until I was walking around like a zombie…praying for my Org to come back.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:53 am
All I can say is…. YAY!
And with it’s absence, I really grew to appreciate the Org and all ben does to keep it going.
thanks, Ben!
June 5th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
o_o I seriously thought something [i]legal[/i] happened. I was about to flip. Glad everything is okay. But then again, that’s what I get for getting worked up. I knew the switch was going on but thought something halted it.
*hugs the org tight*
DONTCHU EVA LEAVE ME!! O_O
June 5th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I am glad to hear that the members of the Org Team are safe and doing well now.
Thank you theplanet.com for working hard to revive the Org and other folks’ sites.
Thank you Ben for the update.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Hurrah!!!!
June 5th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
I kinda thought it was more than a coincidence that the two sites that I visit the most (prince.org and www.atariage.com) both went down Saturday night.
Glad to see you’re back! 
Bob
June 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
June 5th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
This definitely served as a reminder that I MUST get some folks’ telephone numbers! Glad the org is back.
June 5th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
fires & explosions at server HQ…i know the prince buff thread is hot, but hotness overload?
seriously tho, great 2 c the org is back - thanks
June 5th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
THANK GOODNESS IT’S OVER!!!!
I thought it was the first stage of Armageddon or something.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
I´m glad to have u back again … I was so sad and worried about Org
June 5th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Look atcha’s actin like it would be a mass suicide if the org went down for good…
June 6th, 2008 at 3:12 am
ty
June 6th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
It would be a shame for the site to be down on Prince’s golden birthday, it has 2 B up 4 the fam
June 7th, 2008 at 2:03 am
I forgive you this time Mr. Margolin.
Next time I’m obliged to slap your butt.
Thanx 4 this wonderful site Ben.
June 7th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Im happy that the org is back and nothing lost.
Thanks too all the ppl who worked hard 2 restore power and in time 4 P’s big day!
June 8th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Happy Birthday Prince
June 8th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Hurrah for the org and Hurrah for Prince
can we have 3121.com back as well?
June 8th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I thought something was wrong with my computer
June 10th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
i was starting to get worried, and pretty bored! glad it’s back up!!!
June 14th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Wow, I just go on vacation and look what happens: the org (literally) blows up!
Glad things are sorted out…I’m off to test the new servers right now! 
June 20th, 2008 at 2:02 am
I’m alright, tht’s the main thing
August 11th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
HI, welcome back 2 this planet. By the way- how is P?