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With all of this effort put into keeping the data center running, I've been wondering about a few things. Was it actually connected to the outside world throug
by Pyrodogg 14y ago
With all of this effort put into keeping the data center running, I've been wondering about a few things.
Was it actually connected to the outside world throughout the storm?
I have a hard time imaging that with the power out in large sections of the city some key router on the line wouldn't have also lost power.
If that's the case, the effort was put in just to keep the computers warm to prevent unplanned shutdown, not to actually provide uninterrupted service to the customer?
I'm not familiar with data center operation. If you're already cut off from the larger network at what point does it make sense to keep the machines running vs. shutting them down?
Or perhaps i'm just mistaken and they were actually connected throughout. In which case I find it amazing that the water knocked out pumps and necessitated other shutdowns but their network wasn't damaged in some way.
- Retric 14y agoFiber can be underwater with no problems so it's really just the end points you have to worry about. Honestly, I would be surprised if most networks had much issue with this storm as they generally last until the first time you need to refill the generators. That said available bandwidth is probably significant issue, I had a lot of network issues though the storm, but slow is often a lot better than down.
- madkangas 14y agoYes, it's still connected to the outside world, and has been continuously thus far. Example of a site still being served from machines at Peer1: http://blog.squarespace.com/ http://blog.squarespace.com/ (I am a Squarespace employee)