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Microdoser:

--- Quote from: tooki on April 08, 2021, 04:31:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ultrapurple on April 08, 2021, 03:26:44 pm ---Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

— Andrew S Tanenbaum, 1989

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Yes, or of actual messenger pigeons!

With that said, the critical downside of the station wagon or pigeon is the latency! :P

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Or the time someone put a CD on the back of a snail and sent it across a table and got better data transmission rates than using the LAN (at the time)
Ultrapurple:

--- Quote from: tooki on April 08, 2021, 04:31:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ultrapurple on April 08, 2021, 03:26:44 pm ---Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

— Andrew S Tanenbaum, 1989

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Yes, or of actual messenger pigeons!

With that said, the critical downside of the station wagon or pigeon is the latency! :P

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I'm sorry I'm dragging this so far off-topic; I promise to sit on the Naughty Step for a while and Think About What I've Done. But meanwhile, have a ponder about the effective latency in even, say, a thousand parallel, error-free, get-the-label-speed 10Gbps direct links for that amount of data. How many miles apart do your data centres have to be before it's quicker to send the data via wires than wheels?

And don't get me started on the effective data rate of a cargo plane worth of 6GB/mm3...

OK, I've arrived at the Naughty Step. Sitting in 3... 2... 1...
madires:

--- Quote from: tooki on April 08, 2021, 04:31:22 pm ---Yes, or of actual messenger pigeons!

With that said, the critical downside of the station wagon or pigeon is the latency! :P

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... or a Tesla with autopilot turned on, or Mrs. Eagle looking for a nice meal to feed her children. If that was your only backup you'll have problem. >:D
Hamster:
New Article : https://datacenterfrontier.com/generator-catches-fire-causes-lengthy-data-center-outage-at-webnx/

Webhosting talk forum: https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1842301

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I would abort continuing to host anything at this data center, here in Florida, most all data centers do NOT use water.. they use an FM200 Fire Suppression System, also, Generators are not co-located with the data center, they are usually detached just in case something like this happens, Generators due tend to go, and when the go, they go violently..  the worst part is, this data center probably had multiple gensets, covering the load, when one went down, it caused a cascade effect going down the line..  Fuel should of also been shut off and isolated, but it appears not?  There should of been 0 water damage inside the facilities, this clearly is some kind of failed engineering design of a building that probably should of not been designed to be a data center.

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Another popular site ( pinside.com ) is still down.. they have recovered the data and restored it to a lower tiered server, but still down.. they have to "order' new hardware for them.
madires:

--- Quote from: Ultrapurple on April 08, 2021, 04:37:40 pm ---And don't get me started on the effective data rate of a cargo plane worth of 6GB/mm3...

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I'll take the bait. ;D So your data center #1 has burned down, nothing left, no network connectivity, no servers, no power. But you have a backup in data center #2. To which servers do you want to restore the backup?
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