April 4, 2005 - (HOSTSEARCH) - Web security experts reported that
web hosting services provider The Planet, with more than 502,000 active sites, experienced outages and performance problems several days ago. A number of prominent sites hosted at The Planet were offline for 90 minutes or longer, and the corporate sites for ThePlanet.com and its major business units (dedicated server provider ServerMatrix.com and game hosting specialist Insomnia365) were unreachable for much of the morning. Among the customer sites that were offline and are now back in service are the Gawker network of weblogs.
