And what'd we learn from that... 1 ~ When Rieger hands you the company AMEX and said go get generators because the mezzanine datacenter is on UPS for about two more hours before the entire shell/UUCP/NNTP network goes dark... go to a commercial generator company, not Home Depot. 2 ~ Reiger will toss a chair through a plate glass window and Indiana Jones 30 feet down an extension cord to the ground if it means plugging in to a running generator(s) in the back of a pickup truck with 10 minutes to spare on the UPS banks. 3 ~ You can run an an entire Internet Service Provider on gasoline for an extended period of time, but entropy is still a bitch... and will get you in the end. 4 ~ Learn from your mistakes, and do not repeat them. Reiger likes to yell.
Netcom had one major outage. One. I was glad I was there for it, it was a memorable experience. -Mike- ~~~~ -Mike- is: Biker ~ Slacker ~ Iconoclast ~ Eclectic Thinker ----- Original Message ---- From: Gary Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 8:36:02 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Post-outage thoughts Netcom had a massive outage in '96 that lasted almost the same duration as this valve outage. At 11:06 AM 12/18/2006, -Mike- wrote: >There are far too many 90% empty datacenters practically sitting on >top of major exchanges down here in the SF Bay Area (and all over >the US) for Valve to have suffered the outage they saw due to storm >conditions. I'm sorry, but a decent distributed network >architecture with properly configured load balancing hardware takes >care of these single points of failure. But hey, what do I >know... I only managed Yahoo's mailservers at GlobalCenter, >FriendFinder and Lycos' hardware at Exodus, built and managed >bulletproof network backbones at @Home and Netcom... So it's not >like I'd know anything about engineering a method of preventing a >little lack of power, IP dialtone, or overload from taking >your biggest cash machine offline. > >(sigh) > >Sorry Valve, I'm gainfully employed and I do not consult on the side. > >-Mike- >~~~~ >-Mike- is: Biker ~ Slacker ~ Iconoclast ~ Eclectic Thinker > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Roman Hatsiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 11:21:39 PM >Subject: Re: [hlds] Post-outage thoughts > >This is true only as long as you work with tested and widely adopted >solution like Active Directory. For closed proprietary system of Steam >size designed without redundancy in mind this can be a kind of tricky >exercise... > >Regards, > >Roman > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >archives, please visit: >http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
