Hurricane Ike is heading for Houston, Texas, USA, where the servers for all of ForumUp are located. The servers are in a facility owned by a company named The Planet.

The Planet has taken great precautions to keep the servers safe and running. In fact, they will even have staff remain in the building during the hurricane, with food and water provisions for employees to remain in place for several days, so they can tend to the servers!

Likely, power will be out in the area hit by the hurricane, but The Planet has it's own generators, and reports that they have enough fuel to power their facilities for up to a week without any required backup. But, they have brought in an additional 10,000 gallons as backup if needed.

The Houston data centers are located in North Houston, at least 60 miles from the coast of Galveston Bay, so flooding is not likely to be a service-affecting issue.

Buildings in the Houston area must meet building codes to withstand winds of at least 120 miles per hour. At the time of this post, the hurricane has hit Galveston, Texas with 110 mph winds. The winds in Houston are at approximately 85-100 mph.

The link below shows the satellite map of this giant storm. Hurricane Ike's eye diameter is a 60 miles across!:

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As far as our forums are concerned, it is not expected that there will be any problems. However, we cannot guarantee that the hurricane won't get worse and present some problems.

Our best wishes and great thanks go out to the employees of The Planet for riding out the hurricane to care for our servers.

best of luck to them

Our forum was unavailable for a short moment, as was the Dutch support forum.
All is back now, so it was probably a "hiccup" I heard on CNN that over 3 million people are without power.
Good luck to all of them, it won't be easy to deal with it along with the extensive damage, even in down town Houston.

None of the sites that I Adm or visit, were down at all. ForumUp did a stellar job.

The Planet did an excellent job. I'm still trying to get in touch with family in Houston and Austin.

I finally heard yesterday that they are all safe and sound but my son was still without power and may be for up to a month. I hope that part isn't so. I can't imagne being without it for that long.

Thanks for your concern.

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