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Power outages hit north-eastern US - some Stardock servers down

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Power outages hit north-eastern US - some Stardock servers down

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html
from WinCustomize Forums

The entire north-eastern US power grid has gone offline. Object Desktop subscribers should still be able to get their software as the main servers are outside the affected area - however, the main Stardock website appears to be down, as are news and IRC servers. Service will be resumed when the power is - for now, sit tight. Update: stardock.com is now back online. Still no news or IRC


Added note by KarmaGirl: Please note that this also effects our online store, creating accounts and certain database functions due to the in-house database functions.  Unfortunately, local communications have been effected by this.  Some areas are out of phones due to powers surges destroying equipment.  It is doubtful that if we brought Stardock up on power that we would be able to connect out to restore internet connectivity.

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Stardock has power now.....but the internet is down   I guess a whole lotta' stuff was effected by this
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmm. This reminds of an episode on Bewitched. Clara thought she made a blackout the whole neighborhood. The power went here. The lights came back on. What time did this happened? Was it dark or light out?
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Aw! Nevermind. I read the thread. It happened night time. Vermont lost power. Came back on. Sorry about that.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
this is rockinmike from central new york reporting in after a long 28 hr delay we are now back online. Gave me a chance to finally start working on my first windowblind.
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top


It was nice having the peace and quite in NYC for a while. Not all of us have power but y house just got it.

Too bad about Stardock and stuff... Do downloads??? No Uploads?? AND its a Friday!
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I still cannot connect to www.objectdesktop.com via the web or through component manager.
Cannot ping it nor traceroute to it. Is this still fallout from the blackout??
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes. The internet routing appears to be down. Stardock Central works, but you can't get new copies of it via stardock.com because the DB server that checks registrations is down. I suspect things shoud be better by the start of next week.
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Internet routing in the area still seems to be down.  From what I heard, there were a bunch of power surges that effected a lot of this.  It's really a bummer that there is power but we still can't fully get Stardock online.