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Originally Posted by Easton
i've shot models from it too, but it's still a waste of time... imho of course
and them dissapearing only reinforces how shitty they are
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Hey Easton hows it going Man, got this email today from them, We know the owners pretty well and they are good guys, done some work with them last year, shit happens
Dear Onemodelplace.com members,
Thank you for all your kind wishes and support. We
wanted to re-assure
everyone that the staff is safe, and the OMP offices,
datacenter, and
servers were not damaged at all by Hurricane Wilma,
which has
devastated the Ft. Lauderdale area. Wilma hit the
area harder than is
being reported on the news. There are widespread
outages of essential
services, such as power, water and gas; these are
almost non-existent
throughout all of Broward County (the greater Ft.
Lauderdale area).
Estimates range from 3 to 4 million people who are
without power and
water currently. Most regular phones do not work, and
almost every
cell phone tower in the area was either damaged or has
run out of its
battery backup, so communications are spotty at best
and non-existent
at worst.
Our goal is to return services as quickly as possible.
Estimates for
the return of power to the area and to the office are
upwards of 6
weeks. Over the past few months, we had completed our
server migration
and contingency plans (prior to Wilma), and were in
the process of
executing these plans. We had already established
working contracts to
host at the NAP of the Americas (a Tier 1 hosting
facility in Miami, as
well as plans to establish a remote secondary
operation in Atlanta as a
backup). We were in the advanced stages of setting up
the appropriate
provisioning for power and space in this new facility
when Wilma hit.
For those who are interested, we already had some of
our existing
services running off what is known as a "backhaul"
network from our new
location within the NAP, and those were live on the
site (for example we
have 5 image servers for OMP and image server number 5
was live on that
separate network and had been running live for 10 days
or so).
The plan was to phase our move to the NAP over the
following few weeks,
and move all the servers (we have 15-20 servers which
now serve OMP,
which consumes in excess of 100mbs of bandwidth
sustained), and the NAP
is one of the few facilities in Florida that is
capable of instantly
expanding as we need it due to their extraordinary
capacity. However,
since there is no information from area officials
regarding when power
may return to the region, we have negotiated emergency
provisioning
with the NAP of the Americas facility and they have
committed to have
their facility ready for us this weekend.
Unless stable power returns to the current facility
(which would be the
best option), it is our intention to move the entire
server
architecture to the new facility as soon as possible
and re-establish
the OneModelPlace.com service as soon as we are
physically able to move
and set up the servers and infrastructure (even if
power does return it
is still our intention to accelerate the planned move,
since the
provisioning for power and space will have been
completed).
It is important to understand that doing this large a
move all at once
is almost never smooth. A server infrastructure as
large as
Onemodelplace.com is always hard to move. We have
received a number of
inquires about why we don't just move the servers,
however the power
and bandwidth requirements alone for OMP are so
substantial that it
makes a simple move of the servers not viable to most
facilities, which
is why we chose the NAP of the Americas. So OMP may
be a little rough
for a few days as we tune the servers and routers to
the new network.
We appreciate everyone's patience and realize that
this is a very
frustrating thing for our members (especially for
those who do not
understand the extent of the damage that Wilma left).
It is
frustrating to us also. We will be doing everything
we can to mitigate
any future outages with additional locations and
servers.
We will release more details as we have them.
Regards and thanks