February 2nd, 2009, Melbourne.
Primus’s Melbourne internet hub lost power for several hours with the diesal backup generator failing. Primus is investigating a major power outage at it’s Melbourne data centre in Australia, affecting several internet service providers and thousands of customers. The King St facility, located in Melbourne’s CBD, had diesel power back up which failed to keep the centre running said reports. Submissions to the Whirlpool web forum and others said the battery back up had also failed.
Power was restored to the data centre at 18:00 Sunday, local time. The outage was caused by a cable being cut. According to PIPE Networks CEO, Bevan Slattery, writing on the whirlpool forum: “Details are still being determined, however, there appears to have been a loss of mains power, combined with a failure of backup diesel generation, and therefore the depletion of the UPS batteries.”
ISP providers Westnet, iiNet, Netspace, Internode, and TPG customers were among those affected.
Friday, February 6, 2009
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