Who's affected

Users of the shared hosting service.

When

Jan 15th 2009 19:39EST

What happened

The secondary server was put back online.

Why

On january first, that server (hesiode.koumbit.net) was completely put offline by a power surge following a power outage. While the main server took over and the load balancing service hid the outage, this greatly affected the performance of websites and hosting services in general.

How

The server was return to our provider, which repaired the problem and returned the server.