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

[Damian Guppy]

You need to remember we are not talking about some big multinational
company here. We are talking about a bunch of cash poor startups who would
rather spend their limited funds improving their product than blowing it on
duplicating infrastructure chasing another 9

When your datacenter tells you they have all these wonderful backup
measures in place like N+1 cooling and power, diverse connectivity paths,
backup generators, onsite fuel storage for x days and refueling agreements
etc, doubling(or increasing) your infrastructure spend for the remote
chance that all that fails seems kind of wasteful.

--Damian

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Glen Greig <glen at greig.net.au> wrote:

>
>
>> Rather than sitting back and going "oh well, this is beyond what we
>> catered for, so we'll just let it run down", they did something. Good
>> on 'em I say - if they can see a crazy option, and carry it out
>> successfully then I think that rocks :)
>>
>>
> What's more successful the guy who runs into a burning building and save's
> his children from burning alive, or the guy who installs smoke detectors
> which go off and everybody gets out before there is real danger to begin
> with. One may make a better news story and be more heroic, but I know which
> one I would call more successful.
>
> Don't get me wrong, the guys on the scene did a wonderful job, but there
> was immense amounts of luck involved here, and stressful and lucky are two
> different things.
>
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