Temporary outage due to orcon power failure

Unfortunately several of our websites and mail service went down for much of this morning after someone crashed their car and took power away from the Orcon datacenter. This outage affected thousands of websites and only a small percentage were SilverStripe related. We treat this a serious problem because this is the second time in a year that Orcon diesel generators have failed—so in addition to us reminding Orcon of their contractual obligations we are we are working with Nucleus to spread our services across networks.

More information is available at

1. The Orcon System Status page 
2. ComputerWorld, 26 Feb 07, Orcon's datacentre fails.
3. GeekZone, Early morning Vector outage hits Orcon co-lo customers