A few day ago the data center where I used to host my name servers lost its
connection to the Internet for a very long time (almost 36 hours). Whatever
the cause, the web, mail and application servers of customers big and small
were dead in the water. There was no way to reach them via the Internet. The
data center’s owner, who’s a friend of mine, was on the phone with his service
providers, getting the issue sorted out. In the first 24 hours I sent him
around five text messages and was able to speak with him a couple of times.
However, many of his other clients couldn’t reach him, and some of them even
called me asking if I knew what was going on.