I thought datacenters typically used Halon fire suppression systems? The last place I worked that had an onsite datacenter had one, there were warning strobes to indicate the system had discharged and asphyxiation warning signs.
My question is, are you staying with them or moving to another service provider?
Halon was banned, but old fire suppression systems may still use it. And there are a few alternatives, i.e. FM-200. Anyhow, you'll also find classic water based fire suppression systems in many data centers. Some of them create a misty spray.
My question is, are you staying with them or moving to another service provider?
My question is, are you staying with them or moving to another service provider?
That's a question of whether you stick with the provider that's already had the fire, and hopefully learned something from the experience - or go with a new provider that hasn't had a fire yet!
My question is, are you staying with them or moving to another service provider?
For prosperity....including the bad spelling:
My question is, are you staying with them or moving to another service provider?
That's a question of whether you stick with the provider that's already had the fire, and hopefully learned something from the experience - or go with a new provider that hasn't had a fire yet!
True, or do you stick with a provider that had a fire or move to one that hasn't.
It is a business after all.
I figured this event needed it's own thread, so moved it from the servere reports thread.
HUGE thanks to gnif for handling this:
https://hostfission.com/
The server was down from 2021-04-04 21:13 UTC to 2021-04-08 03:36 UTC
It's currently still operating in a degraded state, and performance is surrently impacted until the caches catch up.
Gorillaservers upgraded the server box (maybe the old box was water damaged?) from Dual Xeon 2620V2 from the older dual L5630
Presumably they'll upgrade the other redundant box too to match, but the 2nd box is not currently online yet.
The lesson here is, whilst it's great to have a fully redundant automatic backup server, it was kinda silly to have it in the same datacenter!
We are going to ask Gorillaservers is they can provision one of the boxes in their LA data center, so if a whole city/state goes out the server will still operate.
It would be nice if WebNX added a large NAS with its own power management in a shipping container at both their locations, with high bandwidth connectivity into their data centers. Its only a bit over 600 miles as the crow flies between their locations, (729 miles by road, est. 10.5H driving time), so if they had another extended outage, the whole NAS could be shipped to their other location to facilitate getting fall-back servers online without the bandwidth implications of either uploading from off-site backups, or live syncing over a significant geographical distance. They'd also need a priority standby contract with a local shipping company at each end to provide a self-loading container truck and two drivers with N hours notice 24/7.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
— Andrew S Tanenbaum, 1989
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
— Andrew S Tanenbaum, 1989
Or the old fashioned sneakernet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet)
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
— Andrew S Tanenbaum, 1989
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
— Andrew S Tanenbaum, 1989Yes, or of actual messenger pigeons!
With that said, the critical downside of the station wagon or pigeon is the latency!
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
— Andrew S Tanenbaum, 1989Yes, or of actual messenger pigeons!
With that said, the critical downside of the station wagon or pigeon is the latency!
Yes, or of actual messenger pigeons!
With that said, the critical downside of the station wagon or pigeon is the latency!
And don't get me started on the effective data rate of a cargo plane worth of 6GB/mm3...