Big Fish site is down

[TroyHepfner]

You may notice some graphics are missing for the games we affiliate through Big Fish Games, and the download/buy links for those games aren't working at the moment.

Apparently, there was a fire this morning in the data center of the company that hosts the Big Fish Games web site, and it brought their servers down. From the people who host BFG: "it seems internal and early estimates from fisher and seattle city light are 5-6 hours till power is restored." http://twitter.com/bluegeckodba

[TroyHepfner]

I found some more information about it on gamezebo (http://gamezebo.com/features/news/big-fish-games-down-due-fire):


Big Fish Games has been down all morning due to a fire that broke out at Fisher Plaza, the largest data center in Seattle. Posting on GameBoomers.com, Big Fish Games Founder Paul Thelen said that power was out to the whole building and urged fans to be patient.

"The building is under several feet of water and they will not tell us when it will restore power," Thelen said. "We are in process of transferring all our data to our backup datacenter, but that is a 12 to 18 hour process as we have thousands of servers and massive databases of info to transfer.

"Fisher plaza is the hosting facility for hundreds of companies, so this is a major Internet disruption."

We'll keep you posted on any new developments.

[TroyHepfner]

It took the whole day, but it looks like Big Fish Games is back online!