Originally Posted by peeperpimp

Try since 4:45 CDT yesterday afternoon....

at HI data center an electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding the electrical equipment room, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers...

Because the management servers were located in H1, services provided by ResellOne, Legacy EV1Severs domain management, and retail SSL have also been affected by the outage.

Athough they say they expect power to be restored by mid to late afternoon CDT time there really is no way to tell, thats just a rough estimate