Posted by mbac32768 20 hours ago
Many many years ago someone told me that your data is not safe if is not at least in 3 very different physical places. Today, I would probably add the requirement to be on different providers as well.
remember sandy? that was crazy
33 Thomas St is basically one huge datacenter, that's why it doesn't have any windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
Nitpick, but the headline is not confusing at all, even though a couple of people are apparently confused. I suspect that is the fault of a hasty read through, not the headline itself.
Some of them have half-floors for all the cable routing, where you can't really stand up.
I think this is why I like them. To me they're not just an ugly box but I always wonder what's inside.
Why not just turn the CRAC back on?
> you don’t trust the automation unless there’s a big red-painted, mechanically connected lever you can pull to turn it off
Seems like this is one of those cases where you want to override the automation.
Incidentally, we actually had a fire in the office building I worked in long ago. The HVAC didn't shut down, and smoke started to come out of random vents throughout the building. It was chaos. And yet, plenty of workers wanted to finish and send that email they were working on, commit code and push it to the remote server, etc. What sticks with me most is the one guy, a very senior manager, running around yelling at people to get off their computers and get out of the building, because no job is ever worth your life.
Building fires are no joke. Get the F out.