Hurricane Rita hit the US Golf Coast this morning at around 0600 GMT (0100 local time) with winds of up to 120mph (193km/h) but luckily enough the winds have since dropped to around 75mph and have missed the cities of Houston and Galveston!

I say luckily enough that they have missed the cities of Houston and Galveston because it would be another tragedy for the US after what has already happened in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina hit, I am also concerned for my website because my Hosting Company (hosting-unlimited) has it’s servers in a data centre in Houston!

The name of the data centre is called EV1Servers and from what I can see from their news updates and live webcams they have been working very hard getting everything up and ready just incase Hurricane Rita did hit them, luckily enough the worst is now over and only heavy rains are to follow, I’m very proud at all the people at the data centre (EV1Servers) who have worked so hard and I’m clad that my UK Hosting Company (hosting-unlimited) had chosen EV1Servers to host their server, if you would like more information on EV1Servers and hurricane Rita check the links bellow:

EV1Servers
Images at EV1Servers
Houston weather radar
Artice about hurricane Rita at the BBC
Forum topic about Hurricane Rita at EV1Servers
Article about EV1Servers at NetCraft
Article about EV1Servers at informationweek.com