Braves Report

As of this AM, at least for me, the forum is back up and running. If you are unable to reach it, the new DNS has not yet propagated to your ISP. This process generally takes 24 - 72 hours (often faster), so check back often.  It is possible over the next couple days there will be some limited down time, just due to the processes the host company needs to follow when powering up additional servers.

Update:

We continue to pursue our plans to provide initial power to our H1 data center this evening. It will take several hours to assure power can be safely restored to the facility. Based on how the initial work goes, we will have more information to provide you in the upcoming hours. We will post another update by 7:30 pm tonight.

In the meantime, we have further rerouted both old and new IP addresses for our name servers previously housed in H1. This means that the servers can start resolving IP addresses on both their former and new addresses, and this will alleviate the issues we have been seeing with propagation delay from this address change.

As always, please continue to monitor this thread or contact our support teams if you have any questions.

Reading through the rest of the posts from support, it looks like we should, assuming things go smoothly, be back online and functional some time Monday.

Update:

an issue at one of the datacenter buildings has knocked the domain system for IF and zetaboards offline. since your ISP remembers domain info for hours, this outage will not affect all users.
If you can’t reach your board, no data has been lost and the server is fine.

Zetaboards support has been posting the following on several sites.

This [Saturday] evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost.

We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department.

This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock.

We are in the process of communicating with all affected customers. we are planning to post updates every hour via our forum and in our customer portal. Our interactive voice response system is updating customers as well.

There is no impact in any of our other five data centers.

I am sorry that this accident has occurred and I apologize for the impact.

Hopefully, this will be resolved sooner than later and we can all return to posting in our normal fashion.

The Forum was recently updated to Zetaboards. Please pardon the mess as it may take us a few days to get everything looking the way it was before the update. Rest assured, the most important part, the discussion forums are still fully operational, so post away!

Thank You,

The Braves-Report Staff

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The forum has temporarily been turned offline, as the people who host the board (Invisionfree) apparently had their domain hijacked. As of this moment, the board still remains in tact, but can only be accessed through it’s original link (http://z3.invisionfree.com/CoffeeShop). Yet, to be on the safe side, I’ve turned the board offline. Should anything happen to it, I’m sure Invisionfree will restore it, as they do routine backups, and their servers don’t appear to be affected.

To see the most recent condition of the board, click the forum link on the right. When everything is fixed, it will be set back to its original place (http://forums.braves-report.com). In the meantime, thanks for your patience.

Update: Everything appears to be working now.