The Planet is a hosting provider like many others in the US. End of May, a fire incident hit one of their Houston data center.
A few numbers:
- 9000 servers down
- 7500 customers affected
- $900000 estimated loss
Read the story: http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185
I regularly visit a site hosted at the Planet. It’s down since saturday and apparently the admin still hasn’t had any luck accessing the server, even to put up some kind of ‘be back soon’ message.