Everything including the phone service was down at iMOUNTAIN web hosting after the local Pomona power grid went offline, service was restored after approximately twelve hours, when the power came back on.

Not entirely surprising except that iMountain web hosting touts on the company's solar powered website "iMountain.com is proud to own and operate a solar powered data center serving the webhosting and corporate data processing community.”

Back in 2007, some questions were raised by a web hosting security consultant concerning the location of the solar panels and the availability of a back-up generator. In response to the criticism, a iMountain representative responded:

“I am happy to say that we don't use generators. Trying to sell a pollution causing generator to a solar powered webhost is like selling ice to an Eskimo.

Our solar powered batteries carry us through most of the night and we have grid power and we have UPS systems. We have 4 levels of power without having to pollute the environment with diesel and gas.”

They continued “ we had the solar panels on the roof until about 2 weeks ago. We took them down because everybody was saying they couldn't see them. In your pictures, we had them on the East wing (away from the freeway) And as a result, nobody could see them. The stands are being retrofitted so we can hang them on the freeway side (that drive-by freeway shot). Drive by in a few weeks and you can't miss them, and that's the whole point of us retro-fitting it. We'll be adding the panels and a solar freeway cam so you can view traffic conditions”

Curiously, during this time none of their systems went offline despite having their main power-source disabled. iMountain hosts approximately one thousand domain names at this time and touts having a 30ghz MySQL cluster to serve their clientele.

(We'd love to get our hands on one of those but sadly our budget leaves us within the realms of reality)