3 ms·
>Spend a little extra money up front for out-of-band access to your infrastructure and leverage the provider for the physical stuff! This /sounds/ like a good
by lsc 14y ago
>Spend a little extra money up front for out-of-band access to your infrastructure and leverage the provider for the physical stuff!
This /sounds/ like a good idea until the reality of trying to get someone random to fix an actual hardware problem over the phone sets in.
It only takes one idiot pulling the wrong drive once.
(to be clear, spend the money on oob management, too. Serial consoles are essential if you want to have a hope of knowing why that server rebooted last night. And you need to be able to monitor your power draw; it really doesn't cost that much more to spring for the PDU that can monitor and switch the outlets.)
- rdl 14y agoI was half thinking of setting up colo in Hawaii specifically to cause people to have to make work-covered travel plans to there to "fix things". The official justification would be to be under US law and have lower latency access to Asia (although I think Seattle to North Asia is about the same as HNL to North Asia, and certainly cheaper/better bandwidth). The problem is power is even more expensive there than in SF.