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Primus Melbourne data center crashes
 
Internet hub loses power for several hours and back up power unable to cope – reports
(2/2/2009)
Primus is investigating a major power outage at a Melbourne, Australia data center which affected several internet service providers and thousands of customers.

The centre at King St had diesel power back up which failed to keep the center running said reports. Submissions to the Whirlpool web forum and others said the battery back up had also failed. Power was restored at 6pm 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.”.

Westnet, iiNet, Netspace, Internode, and TPG customers were among those affected
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