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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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