EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon,

It's Groundhog Day at Primus. The hosting company has suffered a third major data centre outage for 2009, even after it reportedly spent $2 million improving its Melbourne facility.

Again, the fault was attributed to the local power grid. And again, both the UPS and the diesel generator failed to save the day.

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