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

[Damian Guppy]

I think I read somewhere that one of thoes big names in PEER1 also had a DR
in another data-center, that was unfortunately knocked offline by sandy as
well.

The Verge also did an article on the PEER1 situation and datacenters in NY
in general  -
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/31/3581916/new-york-hurricane-sandy-stackexchange-squarespace-gawker

--Damian

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

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> On 01/11/2012, at 11:01 PM, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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!
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> Easy to throw rocks from a distance.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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>    - mark
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