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Seriously. Earthquakes are by far the biggest cause of outages I've seen, far more than power/UPS/cooling/network/disk issues. These silly fools!
by staunch 15y ago
Seriously. Earthquakes are by far the biggest cause of outages I've seen, far more than power/UPS/cooling/network/disk issues. These silly fools!
- lsc 15y agoIt's quite possible my sarcasm meter is broken, but really? He.net freemont goes down a few times a year. We get an earthquake big enough to actually break things around here once every 10 or 20 years. Even the really good data centers have outages more often than that, and he.net is decidedly low end in price.
- tedunangst 15y agoyour sarcasm meter is broken.
- lsc 15y agosorry; I plead Poe's law. I've seen a lot of people who wanted data centers in separate parts of the world before they even had so much as offline backups. I've had some customers who wanted multiple locations instead of RAID. "well, when the disk fails, we'll switch to the backup location" me: ??!?
- idlewords 15y agoThey're rare events, but they're also inevitable, the disruption to service after a serious quake will be prolonged, and this factor is completely under our control when selecting a host, unlike the others you list. Most companies offer a choice of datacenters and it's pretty easy to pick one that is not sitting on a fault.