Server Fire…
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These are two words that I never wanted to read next to each other. In my world of fragile technology strung together by bits of wire, IP addresses, and a few lines of code… I am completely vulnerable to the forces of nature.
All the tech support in the world can’t help you when the thing catches on fire and burns to a crisp.
So, I was a little bit worried this weekend, when my hosting company informed me that there was a small fire at their datacenter in texas. A small fire that immedietly followed a small explosion that knocked down 3 walls and successfully took down about 9,000 servers. One of which happened to be mine… the proud home of shanesevo.com
More backup scheming is in order… I now have a new quest… how to setup redundant servers in different buildings, states, or countries…
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Now that it is over, I do have to give props to my Hosting Company (HostGator) and their datacenter (ThePlanet). They did a great job taking a disaster and turning into just a couple days of downtime without any data loss… that makes me happy… some companies would just give up and let their servers get turned into digital BBQs.
2 Responses to “Server Fire...”
Pleased to read there was no permanent data loss, though a few more PC barbeque’s would be cool (well hot)
Dude… isn’t this your busy season? Hey we still have to get together sometime. I’m on another mission trip in a week, but after July 12th sometime would work for me.
Later,
Todd
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