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- MikeonTV, on 11/14/2007, -4/+89Buried for inaccurate. I don't use any of those websites.
- insaneliberal, on 11/14/2007, -1/+42Was it a dump truck? If so, Ted Stevens was right!
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -7/+28"Remember the power mishap in July that brought down 365 Main, the San Francisco datacenter?"
No. - typicalusername, on 11/14/2007, -5/+21I need more Cowbell!
- dalittle, on 11/13/2007, -0/+16They had backup generators. Read the article.
- geckofrog, on 11/14/2007, -2/+1640% of all the worlds websites are hosted in Texas data centers. Look it up!
Google, IBM, eBay, Xerox, Canon, Walmart, and various hosting companies have huge datacenters here. - PabloIV, on 11/14/2007, -0/+10I'm hosted in that datacenter and our box never went down.
- blitzkreg182, on 11/14/2007, -2/+12Again, I love ignorant people, they love to sum up all of Texas to one stereotype. I'll never forget traveling other states and being asked a million times if i ride horses, listen to country, or live near a ranch. It's like assuming everyone from California are Greenpeace/PETA hippies.
- Error601, on 11/14/2007, -1/+9Behold the power of parallel data centers.
- xthroughmyeyesx, on 11/14/2007, -2/+9Wait.. where are the sites I use?...
- Satanael, on 11/14/2007, -0/+7No! Not PornOrchestra!
- Otto, on 11/14/2007, -0/+6When was the last time a hurricane hit Austin? Or Dallas? Tornadoes, okay, a tornado hits some part of Dallas or it's suburbs every few years, but generally it's not enough to kill power to anything but that local part. Damage is minimal. As for flooding, don't build in certain areas and there is no flooding. The floods always hit the same spots.
In other words, the Austin and Dallas areas are perfect for server farming. Which is why a lot of tech companies are down there and such massive amounts of fiber run from there to, well, everywhere. - HentaiJeff, on 11/14/2007, -1/+7and 40% of call centers still in the US are in Texas. offtopic I know but I kind of like that fact living in Dallas
- HentaiJeff, on 11/14/2007, -1/+7Read up again and you will see 40% of all websites are hosted in Texas DCs. infact Dallas's infomart is one of the primo locations to use for a DC.
- yunus, on 11/14/2007, -0/+6A downed power line took out the whole east coast in 2003.
- r2pro, on 11/14/2007, -4/+10Texas: Central location, no exposure to forest fires, earthquakes, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, or any other major natural disaster. Sounds like the perfect spot for server farming.
- mstoneburner, on 11/13/2007, -1/+6While I agree it's a good place for a data center, we do get hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes here in Texas. I honestly don't understand how anyone could think that a state located on the Gulf of Mexico would not get hit with hurricanes and flooding.
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5Buried for using a gross generalization. And Rackspace sucks.
- localzuk, on 11/14/2007, -1/+6Now that is what you call bad luck! There is no real, cost effective, way they could account for that. The likelihood of a major power outage is quite low. The likelihood of a truck then driving in to some of their backup generators is minute!
- fac3less, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5Cisco. ;)
- bradleyland, on 11/14/2007, -2/+6Quote from the CEO:
"We take full responsibility for what happened and we will work with you to reach a remedy that satisfies you."
Full responsibility for what? A ***** dump truck runs in to your generator's power transformer during a power outage. What the hell is anyone supposed to do? How do you take responsibility for that? It's just a nasty chain of events that no one can plan for. Suck it up. - inactive, on 11/14/2007, -2/+6Maybe it had dumps like a truck. In which case, Sisquo takes the cake.
- netviper8, on 11/14/2007, -0/+4The point is that it's Rackspace's promise to ensure that customer servers have power and internet access at all times. Whether or not the situation was within Rackspace's control makes no difference: the customers experienced downtime and Rackspace will do everything they can to make it up.
- Teh_Shiz, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3Really... I mean, Digg is still up =/
- wattersm, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4Sounds like they only took part of the servers down, without AC those rooms get HOT. We had our DC at almost 100 degrees without the AC running.
- cgreentx, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3I wish I lived somewhere that had garage temps of 76-79 degrees. I would never use the AC in my house! Here in TX we run the AC in the winter most of the time! ;)
- TodoInTX, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3Official Story -- http://www.rackspace.com/information/announcements ...
- mushoo, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3A lot of game servers as well. Which means great pings for me.
- HentaiJeff, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4they already began and got owned
- Heiliger, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4There is no internet. Just a list of sites Walker, Texas Truck Driver allows to live.
- TodoInTX, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3wow.. just wow... read the offcical story to see what really happened.
- jftitan, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3One thing that surprised me once, was when a friend of mine was running is own little hole in the wall server rack in his garage. He never had AC or anything special to help cool his servers. BUT, he did have an exhaust system to his enclosed racks, that kept the temp inside the racks at a reasonable (garage temp) 76 - 79 degrees. To this day, he probably still uses an exhaust setup instead of a cooling setup. His first lesson was filters. Must have filters on the intake vents was his first teaching. (but then again, he doesn't have a datacenter)
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2Frisquo, with a Q
- Ryosen, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2You have air conditioning? Luxury! In my day, we had to use two buckets of ice and a flatulent squirrel!
And we liked it! - altcountryman, on 11/13/2007, -2/+4There's this really cool system that lets a site that's hosted in Texas appear on computers that aren't in Texas. It's called the internet.
- antdude, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2Not Digg. :)
- dhdenny, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2It did not take down a whole datacenter. Please RTFA for the real story.
- endlessrayne, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3clearly this was a conspiracy to bring down ron paul's website during peak donation hours!! lets find out who that dump truck driver was and charge him with treason!!!1!
/sarcasm - mrlost117, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2crisco nabisco
- blitzkreg182, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2tooting? I don't think you can compare a gun to a flute man.
Gas guzzling truck? Texas must be the only state with Gas guzzling cars and drunks. So we must be keeping the whole US auto and alcohol industry afloat. We rock! - HentaiJeff, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2it was a semi, he had a diabetic problem, and I think he was actually from a different state. can't really blame the Texas stereotype on this one
- HentaiJeff, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1hey I'm a liberal IN Texas so don't go off on liberals on this issue
- quattros, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1It seems like the vulnerability of the transformer was the achilles heel ... I'd dare say unacceptable, even though we don't have much info to go on. Aren't these things pretty common these days:
http://www.imagecross.com/myspace-image-hosting-vi ... - RobertBogley, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1The power transformer should not have been in a place where a vehicle could drive into it. It should've been inside a building, or at least behind a barrier. Its a shame as rackspace really was the only choice for mission critical.
- oldcyborg, on 11/16/2007, -0/+1I think I like "low blood sugar" the best... It has an earthy feeliing to it. hehehehe
Cyborg - Flappity, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Rackspace techs described this in an email to customers, with admirable sangfroid, as leading to "additional power issues."
Uhh, sangfroid? - quattros, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1I would assume that anyone with a datacenter would not get the garden variety ... rackspace is SUPPOSED to be pretty far beyond your neighborhood datacenter. Even without knowing the speed of the truck and other details, it's safe to say that rackspace made a huge error in their datacenter design.
- mike503, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1i'm sorry but with the premium that rackspace charges i would assume redundant power grids and redundant bandwidth coming in from physically diverse spots into the building. a truck should not be able to knock out anything unless it is coordinated with another one somewhere else. sounds to me like their setup is not as redundant as expected. that's the point of having on-site redundant power... did the truck hit that too?
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