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I worked at a place that hosted the servers in-house. They even built a special little air-conditioned room and put a generator on the roof. I never knew all th
by aidos 8y ago
I worked at a place that hosted the servers in-house. They even built a special little air-conditioned room and put a generator on the roof. I never knew all the details but there was dual everything, 2 lines coming in, stuff to switch between them, nothing could possibly go wrong... until the day it did. Turns out someone has plugged all the machines into a single extension cable, and the fuse popped.
- walshemj 8y agoEven the big boys do that in the big storm of 87 in the uk Telecom Gold (an early online service) was quite proud that the UPS kicked in - only to realize that the modems that linked to the x.25 network where not on the UPS :-)