[AusNOG] After Sandy Knocks Out Power, ... (huffingtonpost.com)

[Mark Newton]

On 01/11/2012, at 11:01 PM, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com> wrote:

> hmm so they had NO DR plan at all and people still want to use PEER1's customers that helped haul the diesel. Interesting, I'd be worried about using Squarespace or Fog Software!

Easy to throw rocks from a distance.

If the article is accurate they actually had several escalating DR plans (gens in the basement, a backup gen on the 17th floor, a team of staff to haul diesel, and a backup plan to relocate service to another datacentre).

If you've ever run critical infrastructure you'll know that you can make all the plans you want, but stuff beyond your control still happens, and when the shit hits the fan you just do whatever you can do to keep the lights blinking.

   - mark