March 3, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports, UK-based colocation and Web hosting provider Redbus Interhouse (interhouse.net) blamed a power outage for temporarily knocking many of its customer’s Web sites offline earlier this week.
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Redbus said a failure during a routine generator test caused the problem, which occurred at 9:56 a.m. on Tuesday. The outage knocked out power to the eighth and ninth floors of Redbus’s Harbor Exchange facility in London, England, causing the fire alarm to go off. As a result, the building had to be evacuated and Redbus’s staff was stranded outside as the two floors shut down, the reports say.
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The fault was fixed within five minutes and the redundant systems restored in nine hours at approximately 7:15 p.m., the company said. Individual Web sites were reportedly restored over the course of the day.
