Housekeeping Note: 700,000 Websites Fail Over the Weekend

Key Houston datacenter EXPLODES

We'd like to issue a sincere apology to those gentle readers who had problems accessing Weber County Forum over the weekend. We've had several gentle readers inquire about this.

According to media reports, a giant data center in Houston experienced a grand transformer explosion, which wiped out 700,000 web sites. It wiped out walls at the mega datacenter too:

• Update: "The Planet" continues recovery from power outage at hosting facility

Consider this a worldwide "hardware problem," which illustrates that web data is extremely vulnerable to catastrophic hardware failures.

Just goes to show how truly fragile our 21st century internet architecture is, we guess.

One other thing: Please don't tell the "terrists" about this.

There's a reason this story hasn't emerged in the national media, we believe.

And what say our tech-savvy readers about all this?