why one of my hosts was down for ~9 hours (more amusing than it sounds !)

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by disgust, Sep 25, 2006.

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    or: water and datacenters don't mix.

    this is the datacenter the forums are hosted in:

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    yes, that's a boat. in the basement of where some of our stuff is hosted. it had all the power stuff, including the backup power. apparently those don't work when submerged in water. whodda thunk ~

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    kinda looking like some a new first person shooter level or something. :)

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    thankfully the servers weren't on this level.

    this was with orangefiber / alphared.

    more pictures

    official blog entry from alphared (not quite as interesting)
     
    disgust, Sep 25, 2006 IP
  2. gab1982

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    ouch, where is the datacenter based? Ours is in Dallas Texas at theplanet
     
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    Houston, Texas
     
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    Believe it or not, seeing the pictures, first thought that came to my mind was Houston!

    This happened to my son's company a few years back.
    All power in the basement and to top it off, all computers, servers, offices, etc were on the first floor....also flooded.

    Took them about a week to get back online, etc.
    And of course, they transferred their entire company to another building and everything put on second floor, with first floor reserved for visitors, etc.
     
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  5. disgust

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    I'd be quite upset if the actual servers were there. honestly I found this too hilarious to care about the downtime. :)
     
    disgust, Sep 26, 2006 IP