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Reminds me of a "datacenter" me and some house-mates built in a basement when in uni. We stuck the servers on top of a few pallets so they wouldn't be submerge
by xd 14y ago
Reminds me of a "datacenter" me and some house-mates built in a basement when in uni.
We stuck the servers on top of a few pallets so they wouldn't be submerged in water when it rained. The power was fed from the living room above and the network cables pushed through gaps in the floor boards to all the bedrooms. The adsl router was nailed to the wall on the top floor above the beer fridge and ran smoothwall I think it was.
We even tried running a serial link for a monitoring terminal in the living room over standard audio cable .. it kinda worked .. and was called teethanet for some reason.
Overall it worked like a charm and I don't remember there ever being downtime .. even when there was a foot of water surrounding the servers.
- khadim 14y agoThanks for sharing xd. We had our share of problems initially, but now pretty stabilized with hardly any downtime.
- xd 14y agoWhat happens with your network when the power goes down in your area, do you lose connectivity to the outside world? Also, I just realised that I may have come across as a bit patronising! That wasn't the intention, I was just relating to what can be done with a lack of resources and a bit of ingenuity :)
- khadim 14y agoWe have Eaton online UPS, which as of now can provide 4 hours of power backup. We've also got 3KVA power generator which runs on fuel, used only in event when power failure is for longer durations and UPS batteries need to be re-charged. Pretty common here.