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Websites Remain Crippled in Wake of Vermont Restaurant Fire

An AP newswire article, via The Boston Globe, reports that:

A fire that severely damaged a restaurant last weekend was still causing headaches for dozens of Vermont businesses Friday.

The Sept. 30 fire at a neighboring building spared the offices of Sovernet Communications, a telecommunications company that provides telephone and Internet services to businesses and individuals. But water from fighting the blaze flooded the basement of Sovernet's three-story frame building next door, damaging its servers and knocking out service to about 2,000 Web sites.

The company's telephone customers weren't affected, and most e-mail customers suffered only temporary outages, but the damage to the data servers made the Web sites inaccessible -- some for almost a week, according to Peter Stolley, vice president of sales and marketing for Sovernet.

Among them: the re-election campaign of Gov. Jim Douglas, whose Web site was back up Monday.

posted by Fergie @ 10/06/2006 01:40:00 PM