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Yes, that plastic bag cost couple million. But the offset was definitely increased understanding of the concept of single point of failure.
by lmilcin 5y ago
Yes, that plastic bag cost couple million.
But the offset was definitely increased understanding of the concept of single point of failure.
- rdines 5y agooh my. that reminds me of this story that I hadn't thought of in a long time, LOL: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/07/09/outages-surviving-electric-squirrels-ups-failures https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/07/09/outa...
- jacquesm 5y agoThat article references the explosion at 'The Planet' in 2008, I got caught up in that, that wasn't fun at all. Fortunately we had good off-site backups. Never knew about the squirrel angle, thank you!
- rdines 5y agoI forgot about that! Glad you came out ok in The Planet explosion, I remember that, it was insane. Fun fact: IBM now owns The Planet’s assets via Softlayer.
- jacquesm 5y agoBy the way, we also were hit in 2003 when a transformer exploded. This may be a hint that you don't want to colocate where I stuff my machines ;) EV1 was pretty reliable right up to the point that it wasn't. Taught me some good lessons about multi-DC availability. Some of which were recently re-learned by the folks at OVH.