[84551] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FWD: Explanation for the recent major downtime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher X. Candreva)
Thu Sep 15 11:34:09 2005
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <43298B5F.4030503@equinephotoart.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, jc dill wrote:
>
> My personal website is hosted with DreamHost. They sent this out to their
> customers today. Of interest to NANOG is the bit about the N+1 redundant
> genset system having 2 generators quickly fail, and in doing so having the
> UPS fail and the entire data center go dark. Something to consider in
For some reason this immediately made me think of " VAXen, my children, just
don't belong some places."
http://www.crash.com/fun/texts/vaxen-dont.html
We appear to have progressed, marginally, from those days. :-)
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