[109576] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Mon Dec 1 16:55:38 2008
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:55:09 -0500
From: "Jim Popovitch" <yahoo@jimpop.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20081201163426.2499b65c@cs.columbia.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 16:34, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> HavenCo, which ran a datacenter on the "nation" of Sealand, is
> no longer operating there:
Which is the same story for most (if not all) of these hype-driven
"bullet-proof" data centers.
I recall a .com CEO espousing the capabilities of his
datacenter-inside-an-old-bank-vault to prevent DoS attacks such as the
one that had hit Yahoo! the week before. I must say that the
provided dinner, drinks and Hummer Limo ride, to the DC, made the
humor of the CEO more enjoyable. Sadly a lot of older pensioners
were eating his every word. At that time I worked for an
equipment/services reseller and I persisted quietly, as best I could,
to save some people's life savings. I felt like a diver witnessing a
herring infused shark fest.
-Jim P.
