Google says Ecatel.Net - Currently under maintenance!
It would appear from various sources, and rumors circulating the web that hosting provider Ecatel is enduring a variety of issues that could go beyond simple maintenance. One extermely popular site has the following :
Here's the bad news: Apparently, there was a fire in our datacenter this morning. There's another rumor that our provider's servers had to be physically transported to another datacenter. This is apparently not unprecedented. Either way, every single website hosted with them is now down, which includes both Appulous and AppScene. All things considered, we have high hopes that they'll be back.
They then go on to state in the following paragraph... If our provider doesn't come back, then we will search for other ways to bring Appulous back online.
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Thu, 3 September 2009, 21:22
This site rocks!
Sun, 29 March 2009, 12:15
Mines been down for 8 days now.First it was power failure on my rack and then it got even worse.Unfortunately the power problems caused my server not to boot from windows.And they said they re-installed and still nothing.Hope you peeps havent had such a bad time of it.My patirnce is thinning out
Tue, 24 March 2009, 23:54
Hahaha -- thanks for keeping tabs HostJury :) I've been checking here all day just in case you got word of what was happening beore I did.
Just to clarify what you quoted, though, the fire bit was just a rumor on webhostingtalk.com -- no source was given, unfortunately. I'm reluctant to change my site's DNS back, but according to the noc ( http://noc.ecatel.net/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=performanctests.vlan906 ), they have two of their three segments back up. Hopefully we'll get some news about what actually happened.