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- omnirusa, on 10/10/2007, -7/+213I dont believe it.
Beer and the internet have gone together since the beginning. - philovivero, on 10/10/2007, -2/+114The whole "drunk guy" thing looks like it was made up on the spot by the Valleywag reporter, which would be par for the course. But there is a massive power outage in downtown SF. 365 Main is supposed to have redundant power and generators and all that stuff, but for some reason, those things never seem to work.
It's rather amusing how colocation facilities spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on sophisticated power fail-safe mechanisms that seem to have a 5% success rate during actual adverse conditions. - Alfaj0r, on 10/10/2007, -3/+86Please bring Craigslist up ASAP. I'm in deep need to contact some BBWs.
- heaintheavy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+77Not true. It was only a rumor. San Francisco is experiencing power outages all over.
- Unclekoolaid, on 10/10/2007, -3/+49Please do not pee in tubes, thank you
- chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -4/+36Beer: the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
- nodonoug, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24stay on topic, tool.
- thewinehead, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20We used to test our UPS and backup generators all the time. The ***** always worked. I suspect they had racks that were supposed to be on redundant power and weren't or there really was a drunk guy. Personally I rather like the rampaging drunk guy story. It has amusement value ;)
- tincircus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17And only hours after this:
"REDENVELOPE REPORTS TWO YEARS OF CONTINUOUS UPTIME
AT 365 MAIN’S SAN FRANCISCO DATA CENTER"
http://365main.com/press_releases/pr_7_24_07_red_envelope.html - iceman35, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17"Someone came in ***** drunk, got angry, went berserk, and ***** up a lot of stuff. There's an outage on 40 or so racks at minimum."
LMAO - Bviper, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18Power outage, not a drunk guy....
- jivebotic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Now there's an angry mob out front of the datacenter: http://valleywag.com/tech/breaking/angry-mob-gathers-outside-sf-datacenter-282053.php
- donte, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14We use 2 different colocation facilities for our production servers and both routinely taken down their primary power source and run with 25% generator power for a day out of each month and 100% on generator backup for an entire day once a quarter. If redundant power is a big deal to you and your colo isn't doing something like this, it's time to find a new provider anyway.
And frankly the only time we've ever had power issues in the past 9 years is when we screwed up our own power situation and accidentally plugged both of a server's power supplies to the same power strip in our cabinet. So I don't know where this 5% success thing is coming from, but you're basing this off of the lowest common denominator. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17I think you're drunk.
- saska, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14"A lot of my income depends on craigslist... "
You get what you pay for, eh? - joelito, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11You're into whaling?
- aywwts4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10If any of the ***** you just described happened, the hosting provider is beyond negligent. Backup power sources should be tested every month or more, there should be backups to the backups, and the system should be properly constructed and designed, it should be routine for a hosting company to go off the grid and onto backups during peak power usage for the city. essentialy they should be testing a blackout every day during peak power usage.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Power outages can and do happen even with redundant power systems.
Poor maintenance is the primary cause.
UPS batteries often go bad unnoticed.
Backup generators often don't start.
Systems are often improperly designed and / or constructed.
I tested a UPS bank that was rated at 120 minutes minimum that only lasted 15 seconds due to shorted cells scattered around the dozens of batteries.
***** does indeed happen...... - srodolff, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I especially like the story is titled: Angry Mob Gathers at SF Datacenter.
The picture shows 8 people standing in line at the entrance. - SDNick484, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9There's power outages all over the financial district starting a little after 1:30PST today, just look at San Francisco Chronicle's site for proof: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/24/BAG9NR67253.DTL&tsp=1
Power is back up at lot of places (like my building), but I'm sure many sites are down due to servers/routers coming down hard or air conditioning systems being knocked out. - DiggedyDoo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Gasp - no choice but to live your First Life
- bstolzberg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8VERY MAJOR - HUGE!!!! ZOMG, RLY!!!!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8IM IN UR OMGZ, RLYING ON YOUR MAJOR
- Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -7/+14I CALL *****.
I work for a VERY MAJOR international company, at our data center in Cincinnati they have something like 12 extremely HUGE diesel generators outside that they test monthly... only a few are required to power all of our equipment... I cannot believe that 365 main would have an outage like that, that was only 'power' related. *****. Either they are flat out lying ***** and have no redundancy, or it was something else. - noblepenguin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Uh-oh, angry nerds.
- jeremymccurdy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6You'll just have to rely on newpapers to sell your male hooker services, no biggie.
- skyfire1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7R.I.P.
- asskicker32, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Taken from another board.
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Posted 7/24/2007 3:35:22 PM
Apparently this guy was on scene... - downneck, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6only if the title's creator was illiterate...
- Khabi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I've delt with 365 before.. I wouldn't put the drunk guy excuse past them personally. :)
They really do have some horribly stupid ***** people working there. - maz2331, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I call absolute and total ***** on this one. There is absolutely about zero chance of a "berzerk" employee trashing the systems at the same time as a major power outage. I can almost gurarantee that the PHBs at 365 nixed installing proper power protection and generation capabilities, or didn't like to pay the maintenance contract fees. After all, you do have to change all those really expensive batteries in the UPSes every couple years, and that might make the quarter's results a little lower....
I worked at a datacenter that didn't replace batteries. It bit them bad when the lights went out and you could hear the whole server room wind down. - katakoon, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/2365/killingj9.jpg
- dRuNk3nIrIsHmEn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I'm going to bury it just because he is spamming.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You're right. I am! Is that a pelican?
- silencerider151, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I need to find some girls that will trade WoW gold for sex...
- k3nt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4terrible design on the left hand menu of this site.
on the other hand, dugg for the following:
"Someone came in ***** drunk, got angry, went berserk, and ***** up a lot of stuff. There's an outage on 40 or so racks at minimum."
This has made my day. - Anthracene, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The drunk guy was the cause of that too.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3oh please, don't gimme the families BS. the people who are making serious money from these sites usually have enough stuffed in the bank. they're not relying on pay every single day. and a single outage isn't going to change the user base of these sites all that much.
- Stonedonkey, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yep: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/24/BAG9NR67253.DTL&tsp=1
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3And 'Amazing'.
- linuxrebel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Happy feet are a dancing now. After a year of cajoling I finally got our company to move out of 365 main. It took a power outage and 2 router problems (and losing customers for us) to do it. Now ... I can send this article to all of them. Oh and btw ... the red letter ... BS I went through 3 outages during that time.
- richmessenger, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Come on! You give us a link to a completely off topic story that you submitted. Also it appears only 11 other people find it interesting.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Should have used proper grammar instead of the mistaken phrase "should of"!
- jakk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Dugg entirely for the title.
- isaaccs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2never fear. i believe the internet will return to us.
- GonzoLiga, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Never happen in a million years... power plants are eeeevil, just like refineries that could lower the cost of eeeevil gas.
- xelloss, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3That and Gamespot.com
- Ajajadude, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I believe that should be written down and remembered until the end of time.
- Aaronontheweb, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Reminds me of the Leah Culver "HOT SWAP" story
- Rivetgeek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Sarah Conner chronicles pilot is on torrent, its very full of win.
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