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bjarvisLJ isn't such a huge portion of my life that I was severely inconvenienced by last night's outage. God knows I had enough other things to work on.
Still, how is it that a single power outage can take down the entire system? Do they not have backup power, servers distributed between more than one data center to provide redundancy, etc?
Six Apart, you're looking like a bunch of high school amateurs. Time to step up to the first tier of professionalism.
Still, how is it that a single power outage can take down the entire system? Do they not have backup power, servers distributed between more than one data center to provide redundancy, etc?
Six Apart, you're looking like a bunch of high school amateurs. Time to step up to the first tier of professionalism.
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Re: Those who do not remember the past ...
Date: 2007-07-26 12:38 pm (UTC)My current employer runs two data centers, although I'm not keen on them being quite so close together (about 50 miles). My prior employer had one in the greater DC area, the alternate in Montana.
It strikes me as spectacularly foolish that any online company would place all of their family jewels in a single data center, esp. one located on a former swamp inside a an earthquake zone.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.