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Except, this isn't a once in a lifetime occurrence. As of today it's twice in a lifetime. That's indicates to me they didn't just hit that perfect chain of even
by d2viant 16y ago
Except, this isn't a once in a lifetime occurrence. As of today it's twice in a lifetime. That's indicates to me they didn't just hit that perfect chain of events, it tells me they have problems in their architecture or implementation that need to be addressed and tested before the next crisis occurs.
I worked in a datacenter as well. The whole point is that you test those scenarios when it's not an emergency so you can be confident everything will operate smoothly.
- dholowiski 16y agoDon't discount the chance that this was caused by two totally different 'once in a lifetime' chain of events... i've seen it happen. However, as you point out it is far more likely that there are architecture or implementation issues that caused the repeated outages. There are so many reasons that I don't want to have servers in California... high costs, dense population vulnerability to earthquakes and a hot terrorism target. Massive bandwidth but massive utilization, somewhat shaky power grid, heck even the state has financial issues. I picked Atlanta for my Linode server which is better (it's still a little close to the coast for me) and I host my WordPress sites at a company in Dallas, TX. Did you know texas has their own power grid - separate from the rest of the USA?